Word: aix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Purse-potent British mine owners chomped their breakfast bacon and kippers contentedly. The coal strike they believed was cracking. Premier Baldwin, sometimes inclined to be sentimental toward the miners, was away "water-curing" at Aix-les-Bains. When the Times was brought in by many a butler last week, many a mine owner let it lie negligently for a moment beside his plate. Perhaps it might contain a new outburst against the miners by half bald and otherwise red-headed Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill. There was no sentimentality about "Winnie"-a grandson of the Seventh Duke of Marlborough...
Premier Baldwin was taking his annual cure at Aix-les-Bains, Minister of Labor Sir Arthur Ramsay Steel-Maitland hastened from his vacation in Scotland. At the Premier's residence, No. 10 Downing Street, Sir Arthur and Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer conferred for an hour and a half with Mr. Cook and President Herbert Smith of the Miners' Federation, arrived at no compromise...
...acres of pasturage which their boundaries mutually adjoined. For 600 years the suit has prospered-while the Royal Houses of Valois, Orleans, Bourbon and Bonaparte rose, flourished and declined. Whole families of lawyers and litigants have been founded and have passed away. Recently the Court of Appeals at Aix rendered what it is hoped will be a final decision. By order of the Court the pasturage in question will be divided among the four communes in accordance with a plan of compromise submitted-after ten years of investigation-by a committee of experts...
...late Kaiser used to call to his side legions beyond the grave. He seemed to believe that with his sabre he could rattle the bones of God. Now the grand insolence, and the metaphysical jugglery, whether innate in Teutons or blown over the border from Doorn, reappears in Aix-La-Chappelle, famed by Browning...
...fight-which I don't think likely-we shall certainly not shirk the issue. . . . Mosul is Turkish . . . nothing can change that . . . we will never abandon that view." 3) In London feeling ran high against Premier Baldwin "for not having read an English paper during his recent vacation at Aix-les-Bains." It was implied that he had let the British representatives who dealt with the Turks at Geneva get very much out of hand...