Word: austen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early in the week it became evident that the Locarno Security Conference (TIME, Oct. 12, 1925) was drawing to a successful close. One evening Mrs. Austen Chamberlain and the wives of several of the other delegates signalized that the event was imminent by demurely planting themselves in chairs on the sidewalk before tha Palms de 'justice, where the conferees were in session. Crowded about them was a group of eager Swiss, bearing fireworks; the hamlet of which they were citizens was about to become immortal...
Looking over their shoulders, Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Minister of Britain, waved triumphantly to the cheering crowd. And Premier Mussolini, who had signed for Italy to indicate that she would join England in guaranteeing the peace of the Rhineland, appeared at the window for a moment...
...electioneer. To the Student Leader, a pamphlet issued by the Labor Club of Glasgow University, he contributed an article supporting for the rectorship his veteran friend of many Fabian battles, Sidney Webb,* sometime Labor Cabinet member and President of the Board of Trade. As the two other candidates were Austen Chamberlain, His Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Gilbert Keith Chesterton, famed Author-Journalist, Mr. Shaw did not lack distinguished targets for his shafts...
English 31: ". . . . But one cannot help feeling that Professor Hurlbut would be a better guide to his students if he lived less in the literary past. While it is greatly to his credit that he should profess an admiration for the works of Jane Austen and the eighteenth century authors, it is less to his credit as an instructor that he should at the same time proclaim so complete an ignorance of Michael Arlen and his ilk, if only for the sake of pointing out the absurdities of these scriveners to his pupils...
...date on which representatives of Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia will meet with Foreign Minister Stresemann and Chancellor Luther of Germany, to discuss regional agreements (TIME, Sept. 21) intended to guarantee the Rhine and Eastern frontiers of the Reich. It was announced that Austen Chamberlain and M. Briand will represent Britain and France; but that the opening of the general council of the Facist party at Rome, also on Oct. 5, will prevent Signor Mussolini from being present...