Word: buts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"I did not refuse to be presented to His Royal Highness," said Mr. Shaw after the bout. "I was asked to present the prizes to the boxers in his stead, but it would hardly have been correct for me to do so, since he was present."
"Bah for the ladies! But if the Prince wants it, all right with me. Here you?" He turned to a second, "Get me an undershirt. Try and get one that will fit."
Rebuttal came neither from Lady Nancy Astor M. P. (Conservative) nor from Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield M. P. (Laborite), but from Britain's biggest businesswoman, Viscountess Rhondda. the "Coal Queen of Wales," Directress of Cambrian Colleries Ltd.; a peeress in her own right and therefore ineligible to sit in either...
Instantly the Commons was in such pandemonium as might be caused in Congress by barely hinting that the U. S. cannot prosper without cutting the interest rate on Liberty Bonds. "Explain! Explain!" roared Conservatives at pallid, crippled Chancellor Snowden; but for two whole days he maintained impassive silence. Horrid inference...
Trees to make this paper grow for the most part on Crown land, land technically belonging to King George, but whose administration and revenue are in the hands of the provincial governments. Greatest Canadian papermaker is the U. S.-owned International Paper & Power Co. This gargantuan corporation controls under long...