Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were exposed by Editor Calmette of Le Figaro who was therefore shot dead by Mme. Caillaux; Three, when M. Caillaux was sentenced for High Treason (1920) because he was thought to have intrigued for a defeatist peace with Germany; and finally Four, when as Finance Minister, after an astounding comeback from prison to Power, he dismally failed to negotiate a satisfactory Franco-U. S. debt settlement (TIME...
...McGill game was featured by the strong comeback of the Crimson puck chasers when, in the last ten minutes of the third period, they stormed the Canadian goal keeper with two sizzling shots which tied the game. In the overtime period John Tudor '29 took a rebound from one of F. R. G. Giddens '30 numerous tries at the Canadian goal and slipped it past Kline who had replaced Powers star cageman for the McGill combination...
...Circus Kid. When the greatest lion-tamer in the world started drinking, he got scared of the lions. One day the tight rope walker gave him back his nerve by indicating that she liked him. The night he was to make his comeback, he saw her kissing the other lion-tamer. Later, drunk, he was mortally wounded rescuing his rival from a hungry lion and died with his head in the tight-rope walker's lap. Not new, not dull, not convincing, not unconvincing...
...sleek, masterful Sir Joseph Ward completed, last week, a remarkable comeback to Power. He was last Prime Minister from 1906 to 1912. Prior to the Parliamentary Election of last month he welded disaffected groups into the new Union Party (TIME, Nov. 26), and when ballots were counted was found to control only two less Parliamentary seats than the Reform Party of Prime Minister Joseph Gordon Coates...
Last week this comeback was masterfully staged. Today Sir Joseph Ward is again "His Majesty's Prime Minister in New Zealand." This development, portentous, means that New Zealand has swung away from the intense conservatism and empire loyalty of Mr. Coates, to a judicious but advanced liberalism stopping just short of radicalism. The prolonged unemployment crisis through which the Dominion is still struggling probably accounts for this shift to the left...