Word: chores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jesus' washing his disciples' feet, at first required the King to wash poor men's feet, as well as make them gifts. Queen Elizabeth added the precaution of having the paupers' feet first bathed and scented in the laundry. William III delegated the washing chore to his Almoner. In 1754 stingy, stupid, lecherous George II stopped the feet-washing entirely, refused even to watch the almsgiving. British repugnance for the "awful Georges" was notably obliterated by the late George V, who four years ago revived the King's personal role in the old rite, watched...
...stood firmly printed. Then, on instructions from Canadian Premier King, now vacationing in the U. S. after his successful treaty-making conference with President Roosevelt, the Canadian Government formally disavowed all connection with Dr. Riddell's proposal. By this time Dr. Riddell was hastily packing to do a chore for the Labor Office in distant South America, had nothing to say last week as League printing presses redesignated the "Canadian Proposal" as "Proposal...
...most distasteful chore of the week, the Dominion Premier, who holds his House of Commons seat from Alberta, made a Federal loan of $2,500,000 to that Province's newly-victorious Social Credit Premier William Aberhart (TIME, Sept. 2 & 16). Such seemed to be the price charged by Social Crediteers for withholding their attacks from Mr. Bennett personally in the election. Other provinces of Canada's West simultaneously ganged up for loans on the Federal Premier who finally approved last week provincial loans totaling...
France was as anxious to keep Italy from a too elaborate, too expensive campaign in Abyssinia for another reason. Keeping Nazi Germany from absorbing Austria and growing too big is a vital point in France's foreign policy. Italy long ago undertook to do that chore for her. With her own vivid memories of the expenses and difficulties of an African campaign, France was frightened last week that if Italy were once embarked on an Abyssinian campaign she would be forced to send so many troops to Africa that Adolf Hitler would have the chance of a lifetime...
...than its new one with Russia, lost no time in trying to fix up one of the flaws in the new treaty setup, a flaw caused by the fact that Poland's Dictator Pilsudski dis- trusted Russia and rather liked Germany. To Foreign Minister Pierre Laval fell the chore of explaining the innocence of the Franco-Russian treaty to Pilsudski...