Word: de
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...restraint of leadership while boys in other countries are learning Latin and arithmetic. "There might have been no Great War in Europe had the nations played with balls of leather instead of balls of lead." When George II had spoken, that distinguished Spanish man of letters Professor Salvador de Madariaga rose and presented with serenity and wit the case for esthetics. By the decisive vote of 286 to 237 the Oxford Union balloted that vernacular George II had lost the debate. Were George II Roman Catholic, in stead of Greek Orthodox, his remarks would have deeply offended the many Roman...
...There must be a Government by tomorrow!" cried M. Poincaré. "It is Armistice Day and a Government must honor the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe...
Thus spoke Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, last week, in Hungary's great Gothic House of Parliament beside the Danube at Budapest. The Count, an inflexible and secretive dictator, had just been asked how he proposes eventually to fill the now vacant Throne of Hungary, a "Kingless Kingdom" ruled at present by His Serene Highness the Governor of the Kingdom, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya. The question before Count Bethlen loomed as particularly opportune, because last week, the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, legitimate heir to the Throne, eldest son of the late Austro-Hungarian Emperor and King...
...commissioner on mandates in Turkey. He is President of Trustees of the American College for Girls in Constantinople. But governmental and business missions are but slight reason for Mr. Crane's voyaging. His wayfaring is that of the perpetual explorer. He is a successful Ponce de Leon who continually finds lost, shining cities. "I discovered Asia in 1878," he says, with the air of one who had hitherto led a purblind, provincial existence. Russia alone has received him 23 times. This week he sails to Arabia...
...Dictionary. The Dictionary will contain in 20 volumes the names of all persons who have made important contributions to American life. No living persons will be mentioned and no persons who "have not lived in the territory now known as the United States." Thus foreigners like the Revolutionary Marquis de La Fayette will undoubtedly find their place in a later volume. As it is the first volume already includes such names as Astronomer Cleve land Abbe (4 columns) ; British Baron Jeffrey Amherst (3 columns) ; President Chester A. Arthur (6 columns) ; Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (5 columns); Actor Maurice Barrymore...