Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accusation, not a conviction. And it is the duty of the House to impeach?i.e., formally accuse?any official who they have sufficient reason to believe has not lived up to the standards of his office. Crass ignorance may be ground for impeachment, or drunkenness or indecent conduct. Improper use of influence should certainly result in impeachment. Ungrammatical Representative Reed of Illinois suggested to the House that "if a lot of you people were to be impeached for some of your conduct in using your influence, there would be a lot of vacant chairs here." (Applause.) But that sally...
...which France can pay part of her debt is to cede to us her possessions in the West Indies, which are of no use to her, but which would be of inestimable value to us as outposts to protect our coast and to protect the Panama Canal. Every one of them, to borrow a phrase of Napoleon, is a cannon pointed at the heart of the United States...
...declares: "In the central police station at Belgrade, Jugoslavia, there is in regular use a brazier on which the bodies of prisoners from whom information is wanted are presented to the flames. . . . Needles are stuck into the tongues of suspects and red-hot pins are forced under their nails. . . . There is at hand a special machine designed to squeeze the head until the skull is fractured...
...from the regions of Damascus and Hunns. Armenia has been trying to assimilate 30,000 refugees. It is in behalf of these people that the Phillips Brooks House Association will conduct its drive to obtain from students in the University, the cast-off clothes which they will no longer use, but which will be most helpful to the refugees of the Near East...
...which is hardly compelling. In flashers, Mr. Woolrich's characters stand out in three dimensions. For the most part, however, they remain the tinsel marionnettes which the author undoubtedly intended them to be in order to gain his distorted effects. He tries to be surprising and clever in his use of words and situations but he too often descends to sheer stupidity like this...