Word: adding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been liable to fall at any moment; but there was no good reason why last week's crisis should not have been delayed till after Christmas. President von Hindenburg recognized this fact, instructing Dr. Wilhelm Marx who resigned as Chancellor last week to carry on ad interim. Thus by a comfortable and quite orthodox German stratagem the Herr President was able to free himself from weighty cares at Yuletide and play Kris Kringle to his grandchildren...
...Nations investigating commission, as envisaged in Article 213 of the Versailles Treaty. 2) The instances of German failure to disarm cited in the Foch report will be settled by negotiation among the Powers, and should this fail will be referred to the Council of the League of Nations. 3) Ad interim all work on the German forts along the Polish frontier shall stop. 4) The present Allied military commissioners in Germany will be permitted to remain, although reduced in numbers, as "technical experts" attached to the Allied legations in Berlin...
...German romanticists. That is to say, an ironist in the romantic sense not only looks down upon his ordinary ego from the height of his "transcendental ego", and stands aloof from it, but there is in him something which may even stand aloof from this aloofness and so ad infinitum...
...novels. He began as a reporter and feature writer on the New York Sun. A series of articles on quack medicines, which drove several manufacturers out of business, first brought him prominence in 1906. Later he conducted a column in the New York Tribune under the name of Ad-Visor, wherein he sought to expose dishonest advertising. Gimbel Brothers, potent Manhattan department store, brought suit against him when he attacked some of their advertisements. Gimbel Brothers won the suit. Mr. Adams's novels often have persuasive titles: The Flying Death; Little Miss Grouch; Wanted, A Husband; Success. He writes...
Chivalry. Prince Eitel Friedrich, second son of Wilhelm II, resigned last week as Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of St. John of Malta. Prince Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Grand Master ad interim, accepted the Prince's resignation with the following eulogy: "Your Royal Highness' resignation is accepted because our Grand Master must be 'as white as the lilies of the field [and Prince Eitel has just divorced sensationally his wife (TIME, Nov. 1)]. .-. . Your honor is unstained; your chivalry alone . . . prompted your decision...