Word: strongely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army is strong on soubriquets, and nowhere does the bearer of an historic nickname fare better than at West Point. Henry E. ("Light Horse Harry"*) Wilson, Army football captain last year and Army football crackerjack the past four years, took both the Edgerton Sabre (for being football captain) and the Army Athletic Association Sabre (for being best all round athlete) at last week's West Point ceremonies. It was the first time that a cadet had won both swords. Some people said that the nickname hypnotized the judges. This was most unjust, for Cadet Wilson outstood in baseball...
Paraphrasers suggested that Sir Austen meant, "A League which used raw, un-mellowed, strong-arm methods and thus antagonized its Member States would diadem sight quicker than will the present milk-and-water League...
...chorus which reached its climax in a mob scene at the end of the third act. These choruses were unlike anything that Milanese operagoers had ever seen before. There was something terrible and true in that imitation of the angry shouted songs of many men together, songs sweeping with strong steadiness through a range of cruelty and fear...
...yielded, turning himself for a time into Mr. Hyde, with a sly wink at his own cleverness. He did not, indeed, want to be found out, but had not supposed that he was doing anything very bad until at last he allowed the evil habit to grow so strong that he could not resist it, and he was a permanent Hyde...
...yielded, turning himself for a time into Mr. Hyde, with a sly wink at his own cleverness. He did not, indeed, want to be found out, but had not supposed that he was doing anything very bad until at last he allowed the evil habit to grow so strong that he could not resist it, and he was a permanent Hyde...