Word: brooked
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...interested to stay here and listen to me, but I would like order." Listening to him in the gallery almost directly over his head was a lady in black-Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. She leaned over the gallery ledge in close attention as he declared: "President Wilson would brook no opposition. He insisted that the Senate should sign the Versailles Treaty, creating the League of Nations, on the dotted line. He went to the country confident that he would win an overwhelming victory. I doubt if there has ever been a more striking example of mistaken judgment or a more complete...
...satisfaction, who began the war. The minutes of the Russian Ministerial Conference of July 24, 1914, indicate that Russia determined on war on that date. The same minutes were interpreted to the contrary by the Associated Press and Current History of a month ago. Unable to brook the ambiguity, at least insofar as Russia is concerned, The Nation has reinterpreted the minutes to affirm Russian guilt...
...third session opened with the starting lineup intact, and the University skaters immediately carried the attack to the Princeconians who were fighting to hold their lead. After a minute of play Gross cleared the puck from a furious scrimmage in front of the Nassau goal and caught Cole-Brook urset for his sharp drive from the side...
...verse, "The Song of the Brook" is alone worthy of more than passing notice. At least it can be read more than once or twice...
...sequel is almost incredible. The Italian Embassy at London was instructed to lodge a protest against this part of Premier Baldwin's speech with the British Foreign Office! Mussolini, it appears will brook no insult. Mr. Baldwin, easy going, though he is, found himself suddenly accused by the English Press of having floundered into a "blazing indiscretion...