Word: anent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absurd!" On reaching Geneva, he let it be known that he had in pocket an important declaration concerning world peace. At British delegation headquarters it was hinted that the prime minister would make at least a partial announcement of progress made thus far in his almost daily parleys' anent naval reduction with President Hoover's forthright, hubble-bubbling Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (TIME, June...
Notable was the following declaration anent Mexico's Roman Catholics made last week by President Fortes Gil: "In the States of Jalisco, Michoacan and Guanajuato there are under arms servants of the Catholic Church, who, forgetting their Christian morality, dedicate themselves to acts of absolute banditry on the pretext of defending the doctrines of their Church. In contrast with that attitude there are other dignified representatives of Catholicism who counsel respect for law and authority...
...Stuff" v. Vodka Sirs: Anent statement of George Reeves-Smith, Esq. (TIME, April 22), that "the vilest, most scorch ing, absolutely abominable drink I can call to mind, is Russian vodka." Let our British friend depart briefly from the legal U. S. mineral water which he intends to stick to strictly for a fortnight, keeping a tumblerful within reach, and try some of our plentiful, genuine pre-War "stuff." VORIS D. SEAMAN Chicago...
Shubert at 8.15--"Greenwich Village Follies". Something was once said anent Dr. Rockwell which didn't meet with universal approval, but he is very funny just the same. An ordinary revue made by the atrocious humor supplied...
...Anent Editor High's "tour de force in hailing Bishop Cannon as "the most significant U. S. contributor to religious progress for 1928,"I would appreciate more light on the worthy editor's conception of religion, his definition of progress, and finally on how he can see "religious progress" in Bishop Cannon's conduct in the last campaign. To my mind the bishop's conduct was a sign of the "bankruptcy of protestantism" rather than one of "religious prog-ress...