Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...momentum behind the Department's cruiser-building bill (15 cruisers, 1 aircraft carrier) which got delayed in the last session of Congress and which, in the imminent session, appears impeded by the simultaneous emergence and solemn language of the latest and greatest treaty "to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy...
...Even if Waterloo was not won on the playing fields of Eton, every Englishman and every fair-minded foreigner will admit that the Great War was won on the football fields of the United Kingdom. Nothing strikes the foreigner more than your independence as citizens and even your cheek when abroad. The Englishman seems to have learned the restraint of leadership while boys in other countries are learning Latin and arithmetic. "There might have been no Great War in Europe had the nations played with balls of leather instead of balls of lead." When George II had spoken, that distinguished...
...probable that our final cost [incurred due to the War] will run well toward $100,000,000,000, or half the entire wealth of the country when we entered the conflict. . . . We should like to have our Government debts all settled, although it is probable that we could better afford to lose them than our debtors could afford not to pay them...
...German statesmen similarly declared that their naval programs, before the War, were based on needs and were not competitive with our navy. . . . All the elements of an Anglo-American conflict are now present...
...timorousness which the imminent feminine regime inspires has resulted in calling a convocation of the High Council, never before called, for January. There was serious talk of litigation to be begun if a woman-any woman-should be named on the slip of paper. The war cry was antifeminist...