Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caesar." Britannia is said to have ruled the waves of all the oceans. Other powers have been content to rule a sea apiece. Rome was the Mediterranean's master. The Kaiser ruled the Baltic. Mussolini claims the Adriatic. To every sea its Caesar?to the Caribbean the mighty...
...President can send our Marines to wage war in Nicaragua the President can send an army and the navy to Great Britain and bombard London tomorrow. . . . etc., etc., etc." The House heard much oratory of this kind from excitable members. But nothing happened. Leaders of both parties were content to let the Administration work out its own salvation in policing Nicaragua. (See page...
...intelligence. Claire Ambler, though beautiful, was not entirely stupid; the ego-centripetal activity of her mind was doubly painful because of the artificiality it first produced and then criticized. But the men who buzzed around her, like bees around a blossom, did not understand this unhappy virtue; they were content to adore Claire Ambler, forgetting in their own egotism, to value hers...
Restoration of the British pound to par required titanic sacrifices and was a sort of financial hole in one. France has no more than aimed at the British score, content with mere de facto stabilization of the franc (TIME, Jan. 3, 1927). Therefore Signer Mussolini did well, last week, when he pocketed proud hopes of setting the lira up beside the pound. Italy, a young kingdom with cheap labor for its chief resource, cannot match an accomplishment which is straining even the strong sinews of the British Empire...
...favorite topic; poems flow from many a pen of unquestioned talent; and, to choose from a multitude of other writings what may be most significant, famed "Texas" Guinan sets down on paper an intense, concise, illuminating treatise on inebriety in its various manifestations. Despite the presence of some serious content, the almanack succeeds in being splendidly, entertainingly insane...