Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus with a twinkle and a contented gastronomic sigh, Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France spoke to correspondents in Geneva last week, after a luncheon sure to be recorded as historic.
Utterly different from bold Sultan El Atrash is the mild spoken little Amir Abdullah of Transjordania, a contented British puppet whose chief delight is in breeding priceless Arab steeds. Last week the Amir dutifully hastened across the River Jordan by means of Allenby Bridge, successfully dissuaded some 300 of his...
"To the well-to-do," writes Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the pinko- liberal Nation, "contented and privileged, Older is an anathema. They not only hate, fear and distrust him, they honor him by their disbelief in his sincerity and honesty. To them 'the friend of crooks' is as good...
Across dazzling millions of little sun-flecked wavelets Prime Minister Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha last week came sailing home. Smiles softened his arrogant face. Fellow passengers noted with what gusto His Excellency ate. Oranges he seemed especially to relish. Here was a contented traveler who had been to distant London and...
Later in the afternoon Citizen Coolidge called again at the White House, this time to convey to Mrs. Hoover "the message of love and good wishes Mrs. Coolidge sent." That night, a thoroughly contented man, he took a train back to his Northampton retirement.