Word: adding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt beef-eaters consider that in writing The Giant of Old-borne Novelist Owen was doing a Tolstoi. For hero there is a "sensitive" youth?the adjective is repeated ad nauseam?a sensitive youth who was as weak as a girl because all his strength went into making him a great tall bag of bones whom any knotty runt could upset into a helpless heap. For heroine he represents a buxom milk wench?the scene is rural Suffolk "these many years ago"?who has a taste which she herself considers monstrous for the hero-monstrosity. She has no love...
...could pass in most assemblages for a smooth-shaven U. S. businessman, dickered earnestly all week with his political peers but was unable to get sufficient support to keep even a "Little Coalition Cabinet" afloat. Subsequently the President called upon Herr Wilhelm Marx, whose Cabinet has resigned but functions ad interim, to try to form a Government...
...example, the Tsarina Cath- arine I was a laundress, the daughter of Lithuanian serfs. She washed some foul breeches so charmingly for a trooper, that a sergeant took her for his doll. From her knobby washboard she vaulted, with the ad- miration of an army corps, beyond the antechamber of Peter the Great. He was a humorist-perhaps the greatest. With a fillip never equaled by another monarch he set his laundress, bouncing and buxom, on the world's tallest throne...
...among U. S. bank presidents, actresses, businessmen, newspapers to be first to talk to London. Who competed and who won, his company refused to say, regarding such information as confidential despite newsgatherers' arguments that the distinction of talking to London on the first day would be "a great ad" for anyone. It became known through other sources, however, that President Coolidge and King George did not converse. Publisher Ochs of the New York Times let it be known that he was first private speaker, with Editor Geoffrey Dawson of the London Times. Mayor Walker of New York said...
Though the German Cabinet crisis continued last week, with the resigned Marx Cabinet still functioning ad interim (TIME, Dec. 27), an important Italo-German treaty of arbitration was signed in Rome by Signor Mussolini and the German Ambassador, Baron von Neurath...