Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less than 1001 stanzas, by conservative count, were composed by the A. E. F. and others to a tune which the A. E. F. found British troops singing when they got to France. Roughly speaking, the song had a heroine?a "mademoiselle from Armentieres," to whom the song was dedicated. Habitual singers of informal songs are to be found, who "know all the verses." No boast could be more egregious, yet a certain uniformity obtains in all "complete versions" recorded by bawdy memories (for all versions were bawdy). In general, any "complete version" recites the beauty and whimsicality...
Minorities. In the Council a heated argument took place between tall, gaunt Count Albert Apponyi of Hungary and nervous, excitable Nicolas Titulescu of Rumania. The treatment of Hungarian minorities in Rumania has long been a subject of severe dispute. Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, attempted to lay down three guiding principles for the treatment of former Hungarians now in Ru- mania by virtue of the peace treaty...
...Count Apponyi, undaunted hero of 64 sabre duels. As the problem at issue really involves the practice of the Rumanians of virtually confiscating without payment the property of Hungarians, in accordance with the Rumanian Agrarian Reform but contrary to the peace treaty and to the minorities treaty, the venerable Magyar aristocrat pressed for an advisory opinion from the World Court...
Aboard the speeding rapide there was no one who would answer to the title of king; but a well-dressed man by the name of Count Rilski was known to be none other than the Tsar of the Bulgars...
...assume the pessimistic attitude and to predict the inevitable, each will be a fallen idol in a surprisingly short time, and he whose arm extended aloft in the calcium glare last night is destined to as deep an obliviou as he who failed to heed the final count. But such philosophy and pessimism is dealing in futurities by four hours, for if the comedy is postponed on account of rain, obituaries, and paeons, including editorials, will...