Word: covered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hands were cut off by the Huns. After the War a rich American, who was deeply touched by the French propaganda, sent an emissary to Belgium with the intention of providing a livelihood for the children whose poor little hands had been cut off. He was unable to dis cover one. Mr. Lloyd George and myself, when at the head of the Italian Government, carried on extensive investigations as to the truth of these horrible accusations, some of which, at least, were told specifically as to names and places. Every case investigated proved to be a myth...
...revision of the Dawes Plan are about to begin among the Allies, the U. S. and Germany (TIME, Jan. 14). The representatives of France, he said, must have a free hand. They would cling tenaciously to the principle that Germany must pay enough to satisfy French reparations claims and cover the debt of France to Britain and the U. S. Within that rigid framework the Chamber ought to accord the Government every liberty in negotiation...
...more potent becomes the last-named reason. The shy bibliophile who has picked up some musty, stained bibelot in a sulphurous basement often has apologetic recourse to the sales value of his purchase. Criticized, he will smile slyly, hint: "Wait and see what I can raise on it!" Under cover of this practical sounding alibi he conceals his curious love to finger old vellum, to scan rough, archaic type, to possess a fragment of the 18th century...
...heightened." Artist Barclay, apostle of scarlet magnitudes, is not so famed as a John Singer Sargent or a Joseph Pennell. But more millions of magazine readers have seen his work than most painters can boast. He "does" the advertisements for Fisher Bodies, Humming Bird Hosiery, Texaco Gas; cover designs for Life, College Humor, Pictorial Review, Country Gentleman. For the shapely, aristocratic, painted heroines of Fisher Body (TIME, Dec. 24, et ante} Artist Barclay receives $1200 each. *1st George Jay (died 1923), 2nd Edwin, 3rd Helen (now Mrs. Finlay J. Shepard, mother of four adopted children), 4th Howard, 6th Anna...