Word: unguent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they never so great, must bow before the electorate-the sovereign mob-and thus, last week, so great a statesman as Premier Raymond Poincaré, Wartime President of France, journeyed out to Bar-le-Duc and made before constituents his annual kotow. . . . He told them with a little unguent flattery that they and the electorate at large have returned such excellent deputies and senators that his own task-that of restoring financial and political stability to France out of chaos within ten months-has been comparatively simple. (A wink went round, for most of the audience know well how very...
Commentators could not help detecting one fly in the unguent, and greatly fearing another. The first, visible, was that out of the total circulation of the 153 journals, but 125,000 answered, which is about one-third the circulation of a single one of them, the New York World (309,386). The second (a natural suspicion) was that only zealots (believers and unbelievers) had gone to the trouble of marking ballots and mailing...
...conclusively in favor of a pimply young man named Todd?and Jeffrey went to the modern devil of our age, who is not a merry companion, for a while. But he mended himself with courage and the memories of an old and youthful content?snow-water and the unguent of irony?a gorgeous fistfight released him from certain delusions?Joan's path crossed his again, as it always seemed to do when he was most hopeless. She had always been in love with him?and now he fell in love with her. They were married, and for a month...