Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beatissimus Pater Pius XI, content, bestowed upon His Majesty the highest decoration in the gift of His Holiness: the Order of the Golden Spur...
Patience was not shown last week by the delegations at Geneva. On the contrary their members seemed weary of negotiation and content to let the Parley gutter out at the forthcoming third plenary session. Meanwhile the chief hope for accord seemed to lie in an agreement between U. S. President Calvin Coolidge and British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, now in Canada (see COMMONWEALTH). When this project was broached by newsgatherers to Mr. Baldwin he said...
...President Calvin Coolidge and Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg both announced entire satisfaction during the week at the stand taken in Geneva by U. S. Chief Delegate Hugh S Gibson (TIME, June 27, et seq.). Similar expressions of content were heard at the British Foreign Office; and statesmen said with great candor at Washington and London that the U. S. and British delegations would renew their negotiations at Geneva on exactly the same basis of unyielding deadlock as before...
...came to Georgia. There he fell in love with 15-year-old Sophy Hopkey, made the saving of her soul his excuse for a prolonged and unculminated courtship. When she, tired of his reluctance to propose, married William Williamson, John Wesley flew into a silly and destructive rage. Not content to relinquish his inamorata, he pursued her with persecutions, driving her away from Holy Communion, questioning the legality of her marriage. At last, after she miscarried a child, her husband sued the man of God. Before the case was tried he left the colonies, returned to England with the Word...
...earth from the road. His wife or his baby daughter may have been in his mind; or perhaps young Kevin O'Higgins was pondering some one of his problems as Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. At 34, he had climbed higher than most politicians are content to find themselves at 64. The noon sun poured down, hot and germinal. A motor car, approaching at great speed, droned louder...