Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally the afflicted French Foreign Minister retired to his bed in the Hotel des Bergues with a compress over both eyes. Into his bedroom came, daily, for conference, Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann of Germany and Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain of Britain These "Big Three," putting their heads together, and occasionally calling in lesser statesmen for political consultation, virtually made up last week, the Council of the League of Nations. . . . Their problems...
Rhineland Evacuation. M Briand, sitting up in bed, reputedly told Dr. Stresemann with great vehemence that France will not hasten her evacuation of the Rhineland until Germany carries out more fully her disarmament obligations (TIME, Nov. 2, 1925). Dr Stresemann offered to produce photographs showing the destruction of German fortifications along the Polish frontier; but returned an evasive answer when M. Briand insisted that a French military commission be allowed to investigate the destroyed defenses in question...
...hands and suspended him thereby from the scaffold. Now the Braggadocian guns were loaded, Braggadocian epithets flew, Braggadocian powder burned. Mr. Sherod died by writhes and jerks after a dozen bullets had passed through his dangling body. The Braggadocians smiled grimly at one another and went home to bed...
...there. King Ludwig jests gravely with the empty chair in which is supposed to sit Louis XVI. To Marie Antoinette the sly Ludwig pays less attention. He must not rouse the husband's suspicions ?clever Ludwig! She will slip away soon enough to the great bed, large enough for six, on which mad Ludwig lies beneath a gold embroidered coverlet which cost 2,000,000 gold marks...
Harvard men have long been prominent in the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti--not, probably, because the University is a hot bed of socialism, not because the men concerned have sought to create names for themselves by sensational tactics, but because to most enlightened people it appeared that justice in Massachusetts was in grave danger of miscarrying. The courts, they thought, had perhaps been honest, had adhered to every rule and precedent, had obeyed the letter of the law to the end of the alphabet. But the very safeguards of the individual in this case, it seemed, had rendered justice...