Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After all, Abie's Irish Rose only ran five years on Broadway. Surely the Walker Follies, which has no plot, cannot hope to equal that record...
...silence. If the press were allowed to expose the rascality of ex-Fascists, sooner or later the public might suspect that some Fascist in good standing is a rascal top. Last week the press gag was crammed in tight, as Dictator Mussolini dismissed Tycoon Belloni in disgrace. But rumor cannot be stifled. Soon it was believed that...
...loves the mossy, shattered abbeys and cloisters of England. In days to come, as they sit in the quiet recesses of London's Athenaeum Club, they may chat about their cathedrals, exchanging theories and compliments. But as their respective shrines rise on the banks of the River Mersey, they cannot help but command the eyes of England as esthetic competitors...
...payments will be vicarious and doubtful. Germany has only been able to pay the Dawes contributions by borrowing on a large scale, simultaneously keeping down wages. You cannot continue the two processes indefinitely. ... I observe that during the two years when it was suggested that we do not receive reparations, there was no suggestion that the United States was not to receive any payment on her debt. This seemed rather a one-sided transaction...
Since the cocky little Welshman often goes off halfcocked, his outburst assumed real importance only when wizened Philip Snowden, Labor's new Chancellor of the Exchequer, observed in his most bilious tones, "I cannot trust myself to say what I think of the way we have been treated .... I agree with Mr. Lloyd George's statements. . . ." Although tacitly admitting that circumstances would probably oblige the empire to stomach the Young Plan, Chancellor Snowden militantly added that at The Hague he would make one paramount demand: The new International Bank of Settlement must be located in London...