Word: complexion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whitley is a Liberal, but as Speaker-that is as President and principal officer of the House and the highest authority on questions of procedure-he loses his political complexion and cannot vote, except in a "dead heat," when...
There was a fair chance, however, that the accident was caused by bandits; but the fact that several members of the Bolshevik Economic Committee were aboard gave the disaster a political complexion...
...Visit. The Prince's coming unquestionably has an object of the very highest importance to the country and to any Government, whatever its complexion, that is in power. This object is less a formal visit to the last unvisited Dominion, less a question of London policy, still less an attempt to reconcile Boer and Briton, than a national rally to combat the greatest peril of the white man in South Africa...
...session; for, having virtually forced General di Giorgio, Minister of War, to resign (TIME, Apr. 13), and having accepted the resignation of the Under Secretary of War, it was conceded impossible for the Premier to sustain the loss of De Stefani without making changes that will alter the entire complexion of the Cabinet...
...this complexion must thou come at last...