Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elections, found their exchequer in the usual sad state. A report filed by the Democratic National Committee, with the clerk of the House of Representatives, showed a debt of over $200,000. Republicans, smarting under charges of bought elections, tartly replied that Democrats have no scandals because they cannot pay for them...
...sorry that women have been brought into the House of Commons. I am still more sorry that women have been admitted to juries. The plain fact is that men and women cannot be brought together in association without either attracting one another or irritating one another." Thus, last week, wrote that most respected bachelor, Lord Hugh Cecil, 57, Conservative M. P., Privy Councilor, LL.D., High Churchman, War-time Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps...
...annual reparations payments to which we are committed under the Dawes Plan represent a greater sum than the entire pre-War budget of the German Empire. Only foreign loans have enabled the Dawes Plan to operate hitherto, and the plain fact is that Germany cannot go on borrowing abroad forever...
...roused, Signer Mussolini continued volubly: "I will never tolerate civil officials or military officers with long* beards or whiskers. It is said that all wise men and saints of old wore flowing whiskers; but in the end they were cast into prisons or driven to live in caves. . . . You cannot show me one man who became world-great while wearing long whiskers. It is impossible...
Significance. The British are, at present, so thoroughly mistrusted if not actually detested by the Chinese Nationalists that strong British action cannot very well increase this hatred and may frighten the Chinese into making reparation for their seizure of the $60,000,000 British concession at Hankow (TIME, Jan. 17), and the shooting of two Britons at Nanking...