Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Congress last week completed some three months of its session, a period marked by unusual legislative progress and a great deal of amity, all things considered. The tactics of the minority in the Senate who fought the World Court to the last ditch produced the only approach to a really good fight that this session of Congress has seen. There is something wrong about this situation. There should be trouble and plenty of it. This is an election year. In only a few weeks the primaries begin. In less than eight months a new Congress will be elected. And where...
Garbutt's attorney, who had fought the case to the last ditch, had "one last desperate hope" to save his client by an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court on a technicality. He had sent the particulars of his appeal by letter to a deputy clerk of the Supreme Court of the U. S., to E. Elmore Cropley...
ARICIE BRUN-Emile Henriot- Viking Press ($2). A prosperous Bordeaux mercer has the misfortune to upset his gig in a ditch. A young traveling man, Julien Brun, has the good fortune to pull him out. Thus, in 1817, begins a human little pageant of French bourgeoisie that continues for four generations, to the outbreak of war in 1914. For of course young Brun marries the mercer's daughter and lives, though not ever after or in unmitigated bliss, at least long enough to father some little Bruns, whom we follow to their several graves. Aricie is the unselfish daughter...
...done was done. The Prince caught the night express to London, apparently none the worse for his spill. Encore. A day later Wales hunted in the Melton Mowbray country, this time with the famed Fernie hounds. With the pack at full cry, a very nasty hedge with a ditch on either side had to be taken. Lord Stalbridge, Master of the hunt, rode at the hazard, but suddenly pulled up as his horse showed signs of refusing to take the jump. Not so Edward of Wales. He crouched low, urged his mount to clear the first ditch and the hedge?...
...certain extent joined hands. This gives the Labor Party a unity of force which the Conservatives, holding aloof from all the huge class of manual workers can never attain. In England, however, not every laborer is a manual worker. British labor showed its superiority to a class of ditch-diggers and stevedores by gaining for itself the support of educated people. The days of the Conservative Party are numbered unless it can bring about some fusion with the working orders...