Word: smiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell took as his text Psalm CXXI:6: "The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night...
...which they temporarily reside can curse in Italian without offending the most delicate native sense. It has been often demonstrated that the most musical word in the English language to foreigners is "cellar-door." In the same way, the hasty remarks of Italian wheelbarrow pushers and ditch-diggers smite the ear only as poetical rhapsodies in a foreign tongue...
...knelt, approached the throne, accompanied by two attendants holding flabelli-great ostrich-feather fans-on either side of his head. The Pope prayed, arose and proceeded up the steps leading to the Holy Door. Someone handed him his studded gold hammer (TIME, Dec. 22). He raised his hand to smite...
...proceeded too far in the direction of international association to resume once more her silly position of splendid isolation. On the other hand the time has hot come when America will surrender her individuality to the extent proposed in the Wilson Covenant. Between these two extremes she must smite her path. Senator Harding has realized this, and results will show that most sober-thinking citizens agree with...
...smite his blooming lyre...