Word: departement
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...single quotation from holy writ. A little bedraggled mill girl (Betty Compson) comes across the wastrel younger son of a wealthy family (Richard Dix) when the fortunes of both are ebbing away in their cups. Finding a new incentive in each other's love, they are about to depart to the inevitable South Africa. In a struggle with the ex-wastrel, a flashy theatrical promoter is casually killed. It looks like a blow to South Africa. But a stranger, a queer, forlorn barroom porter who has befriended the girl, shoulders the guilt so they can still use the steamer...
Coach Stevens will depart from the usual custom this year and will pick but two University crews within a few days. His choice will be based mainly on the Fall and Winter work of the present candidates...
...Tampico are given three days' grace to do so, and all vessels desiring to leave said port are hereby given six days' grace, the time to be counted from the date upon which the blockade begins. After this time elapses vessels that wish to either enter Tampico or depart thence will be considered as enemy vessels. Such a declaration affecting Tampico could not fail to injure the interests of the U. S., as most of the oil from American oil companies in Mexico is shipped from that port. The U. S. State Department declared that de la Huerta's action...
...Parliament. No King, under present-day conditions, would attempt to ignore or override the advice of his ministers, unless the act were incontrovertibly taken in the interests of the people, and such a situation is more than unlikely. Nothing in the present hypothetical situation presupposes that King George will depart from the strictly constitutional practice of demanding ministerial advice, if a dissolution becomes necessary. The debate between Messrs. Asquith and MacDonald was, therefore, largely academic...
...Cercle Francaise will this year depart from its annual custom of limiting its activities in its fall productions by presenting three one-act plays in Brattle Hall some time during the month of January...