Word: contently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Affairs. "There was a day when America sat in the council of the Nations, occupying at their table the seat of honor and of dignity that was her right. There was a day when she made covenants and engagements in her own name and was not content to be merely the beneficiary of the effort and good-will of others. Today, apparently, she has no other program than to 'encourage American citizens and resources to assist in restoring Europe with the sympathetic support'-but nothing more-'of our Government...
Results. The protocol, which set the seal of international approval on the decisions of the Conference, was accompanied by four annexes, designed to make the Experts' Plan effective. The content of the annexes was practically the same as the 'substance of the agreement reached by the Allied and Associated Powers before the arrival of the Germans (TIME, Aug. 11). The major distinction was that the Germans had approved the proposals and made the agreement international and effective by signing with the Allies...
...acts, the people act just about as all people act in the first two acts of a flapper comedy. The daughter of the house enters carrying a high alcoholic content acquired at a Manhattan bachelor's apartment. The father of the house philanders with females of whom his wife, up to the time her good friend Mrs. Mazareen tells her about it for her own good, knows little. Thereupon the wife lights a cigarette and starts out to plug the domestic puncture by proving that she can be the gayest of the household...
Upon these statements of Jefferson and Lincoln, expressing the sentiments which I am happy to believe the vast majority of our citizens cherish and to which they will ever rigidly adhere, and upon my own views expressed in this letter, I am content to stand without qualification or evasion...
Boxing. The Velodrome D'Hiver in Paris housed pandemonium as different national flags were hoisted to herald fistic victories. Knockouts being infrequent, room was found for argument over the judges' decisions. Ultimately, the Nations had to be content with this point total, mainly determined by second and third places: United States 38; Great Britain 30; Denmark 20; Argentina 18; Belgium 17; Norway 14; France 7; Canada 7; Italy, Holland, Sweden, each...