Word: betwixt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a U. S. President enters the White House, Father Time knows where to find him for the next four years and generally hies himself to Paris, there to split seconds as the Premiers fall. In Canada matters of state are ordered betwixt these extremes. The Parliament must be re-elected every five years, and may be dissolved and re-elected at any time upon the fiat of the Governor General. The Governor General, like King George, generally gives ear to the reigning Premier in such matters. And he in turn responds by custom to any very marked indications that...
...Having witnessed (on the train returning to Washington) motion pictures of himself at the Norse-American Centennial at the State Fair grounds betwixt St. Paul and Minneapolis, the President was ready to resume work. At Evansville, Wis., while he was eating his breakfast in the dining car, an infant in its mother's arms extended to him a nibbled cracker. The President reciprocated with the tender of a buckwheat cake. He made a number of rear platform appearances, but no speeches. At Willard, Ohio, on such an occasion, someone in the crowd shouted: "Mr. President, you ruined a perfectly...
...parties in the field; the Conservatives, the Lloyd-George Liberals, the Independent Liberals, and the Labor Party. The Conservatives advocate a protective tariff, and a conciliatory foreign policy Labor stands for Government control of railroads and mines, and a more steeply-graduated income tax. Both branches of Liberals are betwixt and between. From these parties the British press is unanimous in predicting a greater return of Conservatives and Laborites, than of Lloyd-Georgians; and with this forecast the ex-premier agrees. He has been shaping his policy accordingly. He thinks--and he is usually right--that the Conservatives will fail...