Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Committee, was among those who urged a platform phrased in tabloid style. She also gave thought to the vice presidency, which seemed, as at Kansas City, to be the only real business before the convention. Mrs. Blair scoffed at the G. 0. P. "I could make a better Vice President than Senator Curtis," she said...
...hope that now he will begin a better life and will find the happiness that he apparently failed to find with me. I can forgive but never forget the wrongs he did to me and my child...
...Past. Though nearly all journalistic historians of modern China explicitly describe Feng as a "traitor," .the Christian Marshal's missionary friends continued, last week, indignant at the adjective. The peculiar reasoning by which the missionary mind arrives at a conclusion opposed to the journalistic has seldom been better exemplified than by Miss Luella Miner of the Shantung Christian University, who wrote last week: "I challenge [anyone] to point to any 'cause' or superior officer or associate whom Marshal Feng has 'deserted' or 'betrayed' that has not been discredited later by those...
...chemical shells, 3 airplanes. The present Nationalist Government was also originally financed from Soviet Russia; but its present leaders have broken sharply with Moscow; and they, together with the Strongest Man, face the Great Powers with a record now beginning to seem relatively unsmirched-for there are no better men than they in China, and millions worse...
...into the society of five capitals. But they remained shrewd moneylenders, with the noses and eyes of hawks, speaking and writing an uncouth jargon of many dialects of French, German, Yiddish. Count Corti quotes one contemporary comment upon a Rothschild: "King of Jews and Jew of Kings." Another, better, he omits: "Princes in the parlor and pawnbrokers in the kitchen...