Word: anent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile a letter was received anent a significant adventure which befell Mr. Felix Morley, able correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. Mr. Morley described how he had seen a big U. S.-built locomotive, "camouflaged and armored," come steaming into the little station of Ching Lung Chiao in lieu of the regular train to Peking and miraculously almost on time. "Instead of the nondescript trucks and decrepit coaches of the ordinary Chinese 'accommodation,' there was in tow just one caboose-like vehicle, labeled in clear English a ' wrecking car.' And equally in accord with China as she is today were...
Lloyd George's Speech. With the opening of debate in the House of Commons, Liberal Leader David Lloyd George took several cracks at the policy of the Conservative Government as announced from the throne. Said he anent the "fair and honest" Anglo-Italian debt settlement: "[As Premier]! was perfectly prepared to cancel inter-Allied debts and the debt of Germany to us, provided the United States was prepared to forego what was owing to her. ... If we had just stood pat, that would have gone through. . . . But it is no use talking about that now. The American debt has been...
...Carveth Wells, famed naturalist, director of many an expedition for the American Museum of Natural History, astonished reporters by letting fall numerous lurid observations anent a tour of the Mediterranean from which he returned last week to Manhattan...
...surrounded Mr. Henry Morgenthau Jr., son of the famed War-time U. S. Ambassador to Turkey. With pencils poised they requested intimate news of Henry Morgenthau Sr., now circling the globe and known to be somewhere in the Near East. Would young Mr. Morgenthau vouchsafe a few words anent his distinguished parent? Speedily the pencils began to race as Morgenthau Jr. spoke...
...London, one Alderman Lambeth paused amid dead silence for one minute and twelve seconds during the course of a speech which he was making in Borough Council anent labor conditions. Resuming his speech, he declared: "You have just sat and fidgeted through the 72-second eternity which it takes the average workman to lay one brick...