Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From Boston to newspapers elsewhere went the following quotations: "It was a very sociable luncheon party. President Coolidge joked and laughed. I never found Mr. Coolidge a particularly quiet man. I have always found him a real, honest-to-goodness fellow. The luncheon on Tuesday was a very pleasant affair. The conversation was largely about mutual friends. He talked with me as with an old friend. The President did not talk politics at all. The President appeared to be very well. Mrs. Coolidge looked first rate. She was a charming woman, as she always was. The fact is that neither...
...loves to be present when body hits body with a resounding thud. Some of it will go to debates because there it can watch mind meet mind and see the intellectual sparksfly. But any contest, where the contestants are far apart, leaves it cold. It takes such an affair about as seriously as it would take a duel with swords at fifty paces or with revolvers at two miles. There has been publicity attached to the meet this year because thing is new. Once it's an old story about the only persons who will know anything about it will...
Following the Alexandria riots of 1921, when nearly a score of foreigners were killed, and sixty odd injured, England managed to patch up the affair in the 1922 Anglo-Egyptian pact, which terminated the British protectorate undertaken in 1914. From that time until the present, Egypt has been working for absolute independence. A sovereign state, Egypt wished the British restrictions removed, but Britain firmly insisted on her right to guard her communications of Empire and to protect foreigners...
Such a pact would not have conflicted with the numerous European alliances and commitments of France. But Mr. Kellogg countered with a proposal to make the treaty a multi-power affair. By insisting upon that point he has gradually forced
...process of moving from the old Museum to the new building was an affair of prime importance, but was so conducted that regular work was not interrupted to any considerable extent. Moving was commenced on a small scale in September, 1926, and by the beginning of the second half-year, one course began to hold 'its meetings in the new building. In April the old building was closed to the public except for occasional lectures. The transferring of the collections into the new Museum was accomplished very effectively by a group of men specially chosen for the task...