Word: appearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty Ahmed Fuad of course declared that he was acting by advice of Prime Minister Mohamed Mahmud Pasha. London correspondents even learned at the British Foreign Office that officials were "surprised" by the developments in Egypt. The transparent facts of the case appear when it is recalled that Prime Minister Mahmud Pasha commands the support of exactly 28 Deputies in the Egyptian Chamber of 210-that is to say he does not represent the country at all. The previous Prime Minister, Mustafa iNahas Pasha, recently and curtly dismissed by King Fuad, retains the support of 170 Deputies. Last week...
...been given a synthetic food substitute. A can of water, a food pill, and care will make roses bloom at Christmas if started in September. The cuttings are placed in the water, the pill added, the water kept up to the mark, and in a few weeks rootlets appear; in a few months, roses. Sweetpeas, phlox, snapdragons, asters, other annuals respond to slightly different treatment...
...yachtsmen agree, is the canniest amateur salt alive. He sailed the Resolute in the last defense of the America's Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock. He is also treasurer of the Corporation of Harvard College and a prosperous Boston lawyer. Once, when he failed to appear at a session of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, a judge sent a man down to the sea to find him. Mr. Adams sent back the following message: "Can't come, Judge, smelt running like thunder...
...course I may be wrong but I think it shows a lacking of respectfulness for one of the world's greatest women when you said the following: "Among singers who will appear is old Ernestine Schumann-Heink, in her 'positive farewell to the Pacific Coast...
...When. Long ago it became obvious that the Mayor of New York City, James John Walker, was one of the required ingredients of any Manhattan musical show. Usually, as impersonated by one of his many imitators, the Mayor would appear in the last act, a deus ex machina, to solve the transitory problems of the plot. When he attended the show there would be a bridling invitation from the management and the dignitary would clamber readily from his seat in the front row to be himself upon the stage. The producers of Say When had more ambitious plans...