Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France. The German offer was received in Paris with expected skepticism. "Of what use," said Frenchmen, "will another scrap of paper be?" At the same time, Le Marechal Foch presented his report to the Council of Ambassadors (see Page 9). The Marshal tacitly admitted that, if Germany wished to arm, the Inter-Allied Military Commission could not stop her; hence it appeared to him that a defensive alliance with England-long a topic in London and Paris-seemed the logical way to provide for lasting security. This was an admission that the control machinery, set up after the Versailles Treaty...
...along the Quai d'Orsay, hung about the Ministere des Affairs fitrangeres or French Foreign Office. Up the steps was walking the Marquess of Crewe, British Ambassador to France. "Le voila," cried a voice, choking down a morsel of the yard of bread which he carried under his arm. "C'est le rol George." "Non, non," re- sponded another, "c'est I'ambassadeur britannique." "Je vous dis. ..." The honking of an automobile horn interrupted the incipient altercation. Out of the car stepped a man dressed in the sky-blue uniform of a French officer...
...five remaining days of Mr. McCormick's term. Mr. Deneen, resting in his Chicago home, discomfited by a cold in the head, rose, girded on his vestments, journeyed to Washington. Next day, Senator McKinley, Illinois colleague, presented Mr. Deneen to the Senate, took him by the arm, escorted him to Senate President Cummins who administered the oath...
...Crimson prospects find five positions open to new men. The graduation of Captain Jenkins, Hill, Campbell, and Gordon, with the probable loss of Cheek, who is expected to give up baseball for spring football, and of Samborski, the condition of whose throwing arm is still problematical, leaves plenty of work for Coach Mahan to fill the vacant berths. On the other hand, the 66 candidates who reported on Monday include a number of promising players who should bolster the returning veterans...
...edge of a prize-ring, screaming something. "Hit him in the slats, Bob," said she, addressing her husband, Pugilist Robert Fitzsimmons, "in the slats." In the 14th round, he took her advice, let his left try the middle of his debonair, dancing opponent; the referee's arm rose and fell: James J. Corbett ceased to be heavyweight champion...