Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stay in Paris to her eldest son, the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, now resident at Paris with his favorite, Mme. Lupescu (TIME, Jan. 18). Her Majesty, astute, kept interest in a possible reconciliation between herself and Carol at fever heat during the week by refusing to affirm or deny that she would...
Smiling enigmatically, he refused to affirm or deny rumors that he is about to petition the League of Nations to permit his father to quit Holland for Italy. Allegedly Wilhelm II desires this change of residence on account of the delicate health of "the Empress Hermine," as his consort is now referred to at Doom...
...indicate that Russia determined on war on that date. The same minutes were interpreted to the contrary by the Associated Press and Current History of a month ago. Unable to brook the ambiguity, at least insofar as Russia is concerned, The Nation has reinterpreted the minutes to affirm Russian guilt...
...Frau von Tchaikovski" as their former mistress on the basis of certain birthmarks. Dr. Rudness, sometime physician to Nicholas II, now a refugee at Berlin, admitted to correspondents that he had examined the mysterious "Frau," but refused to affirm or deny that she is the Grand Duchess...
...stupendously his own fault. I do not say that it is impossible for a Harvard student to go off by himself, dig a hole, lie down in it, and stay there--as he might not be able to do at a small college; I do say that those who affirm Harvard to be undemocratic or to value men for their money are either misinformed or defamatory. I could name plenty of men whom heaps of money did not save from social failure in Harvard College; and even more whom narrow means and want of family connection...