Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great lords of British journalism. Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, cracked a joke, last week, at all politicians concerned howsoever remotely with the now defunct Anglo-French secret naval Pact (TIME, Aug...
...furious oratorical flank attacks seriously embarrassed the Generalissimo of the Budget, keen, masterful Raymond Poincaré, Prime Minister, Finance Minister, and famed as the man who saved the franc two years ago from utter collapse (TIME, Aug...
...from the clergy under the great Secularization Bill of 1905, whereby the French church and state were separated. Loud demands were soon current that M. Poincaré must withdraw this measure, or the Socialists and Radicals would order the Ministers representing them in the present Sacred Union Cabinet (TIME. Aug. 2, 1926) to withdraw. Stung to action the Prime Minister confronted critics with an adroit blend of suavity and truculence...
Rather more "literary" than the commercialized publisher and critic of the U. S., Mr. and Mrs. Woolf belong to a group of individualists who still take art seriously: Orient-student Arthur Waley (TIME, Aug. 27), Economist John Maynard Keynes, Biographer Lytton Strachey, esoteric Poet Osbert Sitwell, unique Author E. M. Forster. Many of these were at Cambridge together, have since formed the "Bloomsbury group," intermarrying, settling in adjacent houses, exciting themselves in common interests. Virginia Woolf is daughter to the Cambridge tutor and biographer Sir Leslie Stephen, sister-in-law to art critic Clive Bell, wife to Leonard Woolf, publisher...
...FRONT PAGE?"Goose him," "can." "fairy" and similar pressroom technicalities add to the speed of a dazzling play (TIME, June 4, Aug...