Word: staves
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...President next called M. Aristide Briand, seven times Premier, asked him to compose an eighth Cabinet. It was clearly a last effort to stave off a general election that would certainly bring the Nationalists, MM. Millerand and Poincare at their head, crashing back into power. M. Briand also accepted provisionally the President's mandate, departed from the Elysee...
...epithet, "plutogog" has few equals. It supercedes the seductiveness of a sibilant with the harshness of a Greek compound. It is a word which will positively drive the bill-collector and the wolf from the door, and reinforced by "peewit", may even stave off the landlord for another month. Away, plutogogs...
...sing a stave of Heaven...
...smashed. And in American political life things have come to such a pass that the old stock alibis are quite ineffective; but by replacing them with pleas of wholesale dyspepsia and accounts of the ravages of amnesia, American politicians may now employ a little scientific venisimilitude in order to stave off the disapproval of their constituents for another term...
...adventures of British navyies, dockyard workers, murderers, bums, nippers and bad beer. It is a forthright specimen of sturdy naturalism?if by that is meant that when differences arise with one's fellows the obvious thing to do is to tap the offender over the head with an iron stave instead of becoming involved in pages of metaphysical argument. There is such a breezy directness about these murderers, such an innocuous naivete about their mental processes, that much may be forgiven them. Stories, graphic, succinct, powerful, well-told?quite without sentimentality, sweetness or light...