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...Chamber of Deputies. When the Speaker announced that the report of the committee of Constitutional Law on the Defence of the Realm Bill would be read, Dr. Smeral, leader of the communists, gave the signal for a deafening onslaught of noise from his party. A tattoo was drummed with despatch boxes on the desks. Whistles, large bells and trumpets joined in one concerted, inharmonious, deafening din. The parties opposing the communists, not to be outdone, mustered their vocal chords and poured forth a varied species of banshee wail-but all to no avail. The communists not only carried...
...smaller mind turns in need to the dictionary. There are 2559 words between "W" and "Wash", and 6220 through only half the "U's" a rich supply with only a few in use. A little digging has given us, for example, "peduncles" in a press despatch referring to the space between two semi-circles side by side. A popular novelist unearthed "carapace" to give us one more synonym for "shell". Kipling, Conrad, and Meredith knew the value of the "mot juste" and have forced their readers to learn the value of the dictionary. When one starts out to enrich...
...Council of the League attends to its business,--and vitally important business most of it is,--with remarkable despatch and precision. The representatives of the eleven member-nations which compose it include such impressive figures as Lord Balfour, ex-Premier Leon Bourgeois of France, Premier Branding of Sweden, and M. Paul Hymans, former Foreign Minister of Belgium. The Assembly, and the six Commissions into which it divided itself for the efficient conduct of its business, went through the enormous and varied list of topics on its 1922 agenda,--coming to a positive constructive decision in the great majority of cases...
...runs the cut and dried despatch announcing one more conquest of nature, opening up a new era for trans-Saharan travel and trade, and connecting the French of the Mediterranean with the colonies of the West Coast...
...meantime the inter-allied financial conference, scheduled in Brussels for the first week of December, approaches. "The Reparations Commission", reads a despatch to the Boston Transcript, "is so thoroughly at its wits' ends over what to do with Germany that the Entente is likely to make a reduction, in addition to a moratorium". But at the same time it is declared that Poincare will never consent to a reduction of German reparations without a corresponding reduction in inter-allied debts...