Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Calling out his entire command, planting one foot on a barracks porch railing, scowling his world-famed scowl, the General made a speech. "You birds," he said,"took an oath some time ago to defend the Constitution. Don't let the news stun you, but the Prohibition law is part...
...Crooks' Convention. What would happen if all the criminals in the world were to become unionized and then go on strike ? Novelist-Playwright Arthur Somers Roche demonstrates in three tedious acts of satire, that virtue would no longer be laudable, police and newsmen would be jobless, numerous industries would totter. His answer is not remarkably trenchant, nor is his playwriting adept...
...glance into the pages of history certainly should convince one that the famous beauties of the World were never lacking in native intelligence and shrewdness. . . . To emulate the achievements of any of the noted beauties of the world requires a pretty highly-geared mental equipment...
Referring to the now almost complete Anglo-U. S. naval agreement (TIME, Sept. 23) the President said: "There are proposals which would preserve our national defense and yet would relieve the backs of those who toil from gigantic expenditures and the world from hate and fear which flows from rivalry in the building of warships." To define as narrowly as might be prudent his conception of what constitutes "adequate preparedness" he declared: "That preparedness must not exceed the barest necessity for defense or it becomes a threat of aggression against others and thus a cause of fear and animosity...
...that both war stocks and trained reserves should be put back on the list of "armaments" which the Preparatory Commission is seeking ways to reduce. Stressing particularly the urgency of limiting engines of warfare, Lord Cecil cried: "I consider machines rather than men the most vital factor in the world movement to end war. Nonlimitation of war materials is equivalent to non-disarmament...