Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Born 1862 at Ghent of pious Roman Catholic parents who educated him in the Law. However, his love of silence and "poor elocution" soon induced him to abandon that career. For many a year he lived and wrote in the ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Wandville, Normandy. Except for "an original look expressing his inner field of serene vision," he is in appearance a prosperous, healthy burgher of Ghent. Tall, thickset, he boxes, cycles, shoots, rows. He has been variously called "the Edison of the immaterial world" and "the Belgian Shakespeare...
...seems clear that if the evil is to be entirely removed there must come some help through legislation, as it is not likely all companies can be induced voluntarily to abandon the practice, but we intend to do what we can to eliminate the objectionable features so far as our company is concerned...
...treaties" the cornerstone of his oratorical architecture. "Behind this formula," he said, "which says what it means, there are no motives. Conscious of the magnitude of the interests at stake, as well as of the solidarity of the people, the representatives of France are equally resolved not to abandon any of the rights they are charged with protecting and to examine in a most conciliatory spirit all solutions advanced for guaranteeing them...
With absolute abandon and recklessness, male and female swimmers last week set about revising world's swimming records. The orgy was (literally) stopped only when an official stopwatch broke...
Trotsky himself has been banished by the triumvirate on account of "ill health." But no one expects that so powerful a man as Trotsky will abandon rule without creating a commotion. There are rumors of a "Napoleonic" coup...