Word: confab
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...wandering around about through cellars and basements," had to be bathed by force. Doctors found him to be suffering from involutional melancholia and depressive psychosis. But to Hugh A. Fulton, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, this was just another Hopson dodge to escape justice. After months of confab, Government medicos declared him legally fit to defend himself...
Last week, after a confab between Secretary Hull and Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky, a corner of this embargo was raised. Reasons were partly moral, partly not. Russia had snitched three Baltic States while Germany's back was turned, and the Berlin-Moscow axis was a little strained. Moscow seemed to be making eyes at Washington, and the State Department, to encourage an axis quarrel, was ready to flirt...
Officials of Luzon, largest island in the Philippines, alarmed by inter-tribal strife, recently called a confab. Invited were the mountain tribesmen, who believed their hunting grounds were being encroached upon. Special word and promises of presents went out by jungle telegraph through the Cordillera range to the tribesmen...
...Ibilaos showed up, dressed in G-strings, scowling fiercely. Silently they shook hands all around, accepted the presents. Up to that point everything went well. Then suddenly, before the officials had a chance to explain the purpose of the confab, the Ibilaos vanished as they had come. It was all over...
...around the neutral circuit this winter. Two days earlier the Government had nipped what it said was a plot to seize all the country's airfields, had rounded up 60 foreign "tourists"-British as well as German-in the Ploesti oil-field region. King Carol held another secret confab with Yugoslavia's regent, Prince Paul...