Word: carting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because it provided so many emotional crises in which to exhibit the sundry talents of Miss Florence Reed." Heywood Broun-"I am not at all sure that the ashman would accept it. He would be much more likely to leave it for his fellow city employe with the other cart...
Premier Herriot was backed by all the small states of Europe. All thought that Premier MacDonald had put the cart before the horse?that is, that he had laid the emphasis upon arbitration and disarmament when it ought to have been on security...
...Louisville, a newspaper reporter discovered a 14-year-old horse, ill-fed, bony, windbroken, drawing a peddler's ramshackle cart, recognized the steed as Hawthorne, 12 years ago a champion two-year-old on Churchill Downs (Louisville), remembered that Hawthorne's mother was White Thorn, that White Thorn was grandmother of Epinard, crack French stallion now invading the U. S., deduced that old horse Hawthorne must be "Epinard's uncle...
...Reparations Commission shall find that Germany has made default, the Governments interested . . . will confer at once on the nature of the sanctions to be applied . . ." These words upset the apple cart in the Premiers' Conference.* They formed part of the recommendations of Committee No. 1 appointed by the Conference (TIME, July 28), to settle a method of determining possible German default under the Experts' Plan and to recommend what measures should be taken against Germany in case of default...
...report an American political effort toward remedying European chaos. "That is enormously significant, because it means the reawakening of American interest in European affairs. The average American says to himself: 'Now we have lent them a hand, after all, and at the very first try we pulled the cart out of the mud.' It does not matter whether that is altogether true or whether the main credit belongs to England. The Dawes report has had an even more beneficial effect on France, who will be compelled to reduce her pretentions to a European hegemony and her military expenditures...