Word: anent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Copies of this latter version caught the eye of George V, Rex et Imperator. An hour later commotion ensued at the French Foreign office. Someone had blundered. Apologies to the King-Emperor were forthcoming, retractions in the press, honeyed words anent the coal strike...
...rarely discriminative collection of such tidbits, he has fashioned these wholly delightful and often pungent essays chiefly anent great soldiers of the past. One can no more resist quoting a few of Mr. Hudleston's "good things" than he could resist jotting them down...
...Pilsudski. A chance remark dropped by the Marshal at Warsaw anent his family sent correspondents scurrying to interview his wife (second) at their white stone villa in the village of Suleiopek, 12 miles from the Capital. Tranquil Mme. Pilsudski, who lacks at least half her husband's 63 years, was discovered alone with her two daughters, Hedwig and Wanda, aged six and eight...
...Navy Department and the Bureau of Mines last week announced successful experiments anent a new use for helium. Faced with severe diffculties in diving operations to raise the sunken submarine S-51 from 128 feet of water off Block Island (TIME, Oct. 5, 12), experts designed a compression chamber wherein animals were supplied with various mixtures of oxygen to find a combination that did not give them "caisson disease" or "the bends," as divers call the dangerous condition produced when they are brought too swiftly out of high-pressure depths. The basis of this dangerous condition is the formation...
...representative of Abd-el-Krim, arrived to initiate pourparlers for peace between the Riff and France (see CABINET NOTES). While Captain Canning dickered behind closed doors with M. Ponsot, the French Undersecretary for African affairs, pressmen drew from other English-born officers of the Riffian delegation many picturesque details anent the Riff...