Word: steeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course Washington chuckled. One of the Senatorial wits-from the press reports, one could gauge rather accurately that he was Senator Caraway-suggested that this jiggling steed should be called Foreign Policy, because it had neither head nor tail. Another Democrat declared on the floor of the House: "I shall not be surprised if soon it will be heralded to the people that the President is riding this wooden horse for the purpose of cutting down the oat bill at the White House stable...
...easier to order Raisuli's removal than to accomplish it, however. No mule and no prancing Arab steed could be found strong enough to support his grotesque corpulence and a special litter had to be constructed to bear his great weight. A strange cavalcade left Tazreut. First, marched 20 fierce Riffian guards, armed hip and thigh. Second, came a huge, ill-fashioned sedan chair, supported at each corner by a pole and carried by 16 husky men. Inside the sedan box was Raisuli, reclining on soft carpets and magnificent cushions. Over his paunchy, shapeless face he wore a turban...
Telling of the Versailles Peace Conference whilom Editor Steed declared: "Clemenceau flatly accused Lloyd George of repeated inaccuracies in his statements. Lloyd George rose and seized Clemenceau by the collar, demanding an apology...
Headlined The New York World: "Fee! Fi! Fo! Fum! List to the Numbing Tale of the Tiger and the Welshman as Spun by Wickham Steed. ... No One Else Ever Heard of It." While they awaited the book, U. S. newspaper readers reflected that, of all journalists at the Peace Conference, whilom Editor Steed was probably as near the inner machinery as any; that of all temperaments assembled at Versailles, those of Lloyd George and "Tiger" Clemenceau were perhaps the fieriest; that if such a quarrel had come to pass, it must certainly have been hushed up; that of all reputations...
...other hand, few men as brilliant and vivacious as Wickham Steed are not also imaginative...