Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week for the first time in half a decade people talked breathlessly of the chance that David Lloyd George may "come back." Certainly the odds show that he may quite reasonably expect to hold a balance of power between Laborites and Conservatives. None knows how to exploit such a situation better than the little Welsh attorney; the only major politician who has had stamina enough really to survive the war. Last week his energy and fire easily surpassed that of any rival; and both Laborites and Conservatives were in deadly fear lest...
Risking everything to capture the city before relief arrived, "Sacristan" Iturbe sent an infantry charge along the beach to force the harbor fortifications. Again the rebels were beaten back by machine gun fire...
Mulino von Kluck, 17, tall, blue-eyed, blonde, granddaughter of the General whose advance on Paris was rolled back by Foch at the Marne (see p. 26), has gone into cinema. Her first part will be in 1813, a film about Germany's liberation from the grip of Napoleon. She will, she says, never visit Paris...
While the Ohio road mender had his back turned to his wagon of hot tar. scamps dumped the tar onto the road. Stifling fumes arose. The man ran to his wagon, into the noxious gases. Within a minute he fell into convulsions. A little while later he was bleeding from the mouth. Now, three years after, he is kept in a hospital. He cannot walk. He cannot feel. He writes inane and morbid poetry. He shouts out hymns for his own amusement. His wits are loose...
...Back to England, a month ago, sailed a gossipy-garrulous young Britisher named Beverley Nichols. For some time he had been selling his books and lectures of familiar chit-chat about the world's Great and Near-Great, to the fame-hungry US. public. For four months he had edited a monthly smartchart called the American Sketch for Doubleday, Doran & Co. (TIME, Dec. 17). Upon leaving he told people that he was bored with the American Sketch and had decided to go home and pick up more chit-chat to put into more books for more money. Doubleday, Doran...