Word: aix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Austen Chamberlain came home from Geneva. Stanley Baldwin was just home from Aix-les-Bains. But it is doubtful whether either took comfort in his homecoming. For a storm seemed brewing. Unemployment, a coal subsidy, industry running down hill?and then that query from George B. Hunter, the shipbuilder, that query echoed by half a dozen of the country's industrialists: "Are we on the road to ruin?" The question put directly in a public letter to Mr. Baldwin...
...Assemblies. Last week the world of diplomacy grew crosseyed with looking simultaneously towards Geneva and Aix-les-Bains. It was all due to the Protocol.* At Geneva the French were trying to revamp the Protocol before the League. At Aix, where Premier Baldwin is vacationing, France and England were prepairing to call in Germany to draw up a Security Pact,† which would largely take the place of the League Protocol. The World stood by and wondered, as statesmen-accoucheurs labored to bring forth a robust infant, Status Quo, in two places at once...
...medicinal springs at Aix are famed for their efficiency in curing eczema, rheumatism, catarrh, gout, and scrofula...
...provincial universities in France are all very much the same, since they are under the strongly centralized control of the Minister of Public Instruction, and are subsidized by him. Therefore it does not make much difference whether the American goes to Bordeaux, Lyons, Nancy, or Aix, although I should say in this particular that this is not true of Grenoble, since one also finds a great many foreigners and Americans matriculating there...
...unconventional Mr. Dawes has again performed the extraordinary. His dramatic failure to bring the good news from Ghent to Aix in the recent Senatorial fight over Warren's cabinet appointment will surely become history. There is a universal appeal in the thought of the picturesque President of the Senate abruptly terminating his slumbers; hastily adorning himself amid gentle remarks to an elusive garter or collar-button; writhing in a taxi with crimson face and twitching fingers: and addressing soothing epithets to a conscientious traffic-cop; bounding, three at a time, up the Capitol steps, slithering through its polished corridors...