Word: centredness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Partakers of the President's breakfast last week were Senators Borah, Fess, Hale, Oddie, Gillett, Shortridge, Dale, Moses, Goff and Williams. All are Republicans. Their attention is reported to have been centred on the food to the exclusion of legislative matters.
With the national applecart thus upset, each of Poland's three political tycoons (Dmowski, Right; Witos, Center; Pilsudski, Left) encouraged his followers to set him up as dictator. Correspondents cabled that "anything might happen." Interest centred in fire-eating, swashbuckling Josef Pilsudski, a former (the second) President of the Rzeczpospolita...
The Author, Charles Gilman Norris, a Chicago merchant's son, was brought up in acquiescent eclipse. His "beautiful and restless and ambitious and fiery" mother, denied a stage career by wifehood, centred her hopes in her oldest son, the late Frank Norris (author of The Octopus, The Pit, etc.) Charles...
In the House the Wet attack centred on Messrs. Upshaw of Georgia and Blanton of Texas. Congressman Tydings of Maryland declared: "Anyone who dares to say anything against the 18th Amendment is called un-American or a hypocrite. As a matter of fact the prohibition law is unChristian. Listen to...
Two sisters are centred, both in love with the same man, and all three working in Ginsburg's department store. The pretty sister is winning the man. Inadvertently she gambles away funds entrusted to her by the store's welfare club. It is the other sister's part to get...