Word: callings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany did not commit. Such hotheads are bristling Dr. Hugenberg and his reactionary Stahlhelm ("Steel Helmet League"). With the death three weeks ago of Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, a statesman who always preached conciliation with Germany's enemies, the Hugenbergians pulled from their pockets copies of what they call their "Liberty Law." They felt that the time was ripe to present it to the German people for ratification by referendum. It provides: 1) "That the German Government take formal action toward the repeal of Articles 231 [confession of War guilt], 429, 430 [occupation of the Rhine] of the Versailles...
Reactionary Hungary prepared for a step back 74 years last week. 1855. In her gilded coach the young, radiant, newlywed Empress Elizabeth rode out from the Imperial Hofburg, heard frightful screams from a nearby barracks square. They were men's screams. "Stop! Call the guard!" cried the Empress. "Something terrible is happening!'' "Your Majesty need experience no alarm," soothed a punctilious equerry. "This is merely the hour for flogging military delinquents." Flashing-eyed, the petite Empress insisted on alighting from her coach. Amid courtier consternation she actually walked the short distance back to the Hofburg, rushed impulsively...
...College of Surgeons, whose Fellows include all the good practitioners of the country. Attending members studied and discussed hospital improvement plans, cancer research, industrial surgery, treatment of fractures, eye-ear-nose-&-throat surgery, care of crippled children. Acrimonious was the discussion on hospitals. Charged William James Mayo: "I would call attention to the clandestine-if I may use so opprobious a term-method of increasing hospital income by exorbitant charges for the use of the operating room. . . ." Passionately retorted Director Warren Pearl Morrill of the Maine General Hospital, Portland: "If some surgeons would forego the pomp and circumstances demanded...
Writing of Owen in his roll call of Gridiron Greatness -- 1919-1929 -- Mr. Trevor asserts: "George Owen of Harvard confessed that he disliked football, but his opponents never would have suspected this aversion. Owen's particular mission in life was picking on Yale. He had only to walk on the field to beat the Elis. They were 'hexed...
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