Word: anent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sirs: Anent babies born kings, of whom you mentioned (TIME, Jan. 19) Alfonso XIII, and learned reader Noss recalled (TIME, Feb. 9) Sassanid Shapur II (310-379 A. D.): add a third, more amazing than the others, the son of Alexander the Great. There is no need to remind your readers that Alexander had married an Asiatic mountain princess, Roxane. Little known, however, is their son, born after Alexander's death in 323 B. C. Emperor of the better half of the known world, a position he shared with Alexander's halfbrother, the half-wit Philip Arrhidaeus...
...Lloyd George gave last week to cucumber-cool Editor Geoffrey Dawson of the sacrosanct London Times. The Times has deplored Mr. Lloyd George's feature-writing for William Randolph Hearst. Recently the Times dug back through Hearst files to 1923, dug out a statement by Mr. Lloyd George anent the Anglo-U. S. debt settlement, printed part of it in an effort to show that the Welshman's debt stand eight years ago is inconsistent with his stand today. In his retort (a letter-to-the-Tzwes reprinted and featured by Hearstpapers last week) Mr. Lloyd George accused...
...Anent the origin of the term "racket," I quote verbatim from Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (London, 1823), a definition which antedates the origin described by you (TIME...
...Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey arranged to have Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, at a future date, answer six questions anent Prohibition. Last week Mr. Edison declared: "[Senator Dwight Whitney] Morrow knows nothing of the business and industrial world. For many years he has been cooped up in an office, away from the workingman. When he demands Repeal he doesn't know what he's talking about. . . . Prohibition is eternally correct. And even if the 18th Amendment is lost, the people will battle...
...Christopher Columbus, the "a priori" of last week's holiday. The lecture given by Professor Usher under the title of Economics 10a will throw a new floodlight on the voyageur. Those who know of him only via primary-schools and ballads will be regaled with the economic theories anent his pursuit of the mythical land now known as Americana...