Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When I arrived in Holland," writes Wilhelm in his memoirs, "a crowd at Enkhuizen ... by an unmistakable gesture toward the neck followed by an upward movement of the hand . . . made clear to me how thoroughly the caricature of my person produced and disseminated by Entente propaganda had fixed itself in their minds. . . . Like a prisoner, like an outlaw, I move among these Hollanders who turn away their lowering, shy visages as they pass, or, at most, look askance at me with half-closed eyes. I am the bloodthirsty babykiller ; people are embittered against the Dutch Government . . . for letting me roam...
Honorable Great Queen. Meanwhile, as the week advanced, the holy Ichans (Priests) successfully rallied the faithful to combat feminism. They remembered not the benevolent attitude toward women-kind of Tamburlaine the Great. He, magnanimous, referred to his chief wife as "The Honorable Great Lady." When she entered a state apartment 15 ladies-in-waiting held up the perimeter of her enormous skirt of silk and cloth of gold to enable her to walk. Three more attendants steadied by silken cords her towering headdress, which began with a wealth of black hair, rose like an immense extinguisher bestudded with gems...
Very different is the attitude at Samarkand toward the two greatest Khans.* The natives seem indifferent that the conquests of these two mighty princes made them dreaded and obeyed from Poland and Peking to India. For some reason the sack of Samarkand by Jenghiz Khan is treasured up in the native mind as an atrocity altogether reprehensible and comparatively recent (1221 A. D.). Strolling about with a native guide one hears said of whatever seems to be in disrepair that "it was all right until Jenghiz Khan came"-an explanation provocative of hilarity when offered by native children to account...
...walked toward the Daniels Home, when we were accosted by seven or eight soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Southern [Nationalist] army. The soldiers stopped us and demanded our valuables, which we handed over. Dr. Williams, who was a noted Chinese scholar and spoke the language like a native, then stepped up and addressed one of the soldiers and protested at the action...
...City Editor Dewey M. Owens of the Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, must have caused pain to Kent Cooper, present A. P. manager, and his colleagues, especially since the American Mercury had published an article the month before, entitled "Think Stuff Not Wanted," which exposed an attitude of blatant flippancy toward foreign affairs in a news service called, for poisonous anonymity, the "Amalgamated" Press...