Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus with pious invocation Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera formally proclaimed last week that a plebiscite would at once be held throughout Spain to determine whether the people desire to elect a Cortes* (Parliament) or to continue under the De Rivera dictature. Despatches gave the impression that the whole machinery...
General Kondylis promised-as did General Pangalos when he seized power (TIME, July 6, 1925, et seq.)-that elections will shortly be held. At present Greece has no Parliament, and but slim chances that the new electoral promises will be kept better than the old ones which were not kept...
She adopted him, a pretty, tallow-colored stripling, in 1909. She had him educated privately in England and at the Sorbonne in France. Then she took him out among the Theosophists. At Adyar, India, on December 28th, 1925, he was lecturing to a very large audience under the Banyan Tree...
"My eyes felt heavy and I had a consuming desire to sleep. . . . I felt myself puffed out and de formed." (Atmospheric pressure had decreased, letting his body cells expand.)
Edgar Allan Poe once published a triumph of the imagination entitled "The Balloon Hoax," purporting to tell the tale of an enterprising newspaper's fictitious account of a balloon crossing the Atlantic. Poe was a dreamer; he wrote his little fancy for certainly no more sordid motive than profit...