Word: documents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finger, but with the bars of his horn-rimmed spectacles. This gesture, observers realized, was not a conscious precaution against a bite or horned warts. Pointing with the bars of his spectacles, indefinitely, with both bars at once, is a gesture President Coolidge habitually employs to indicate a document or memorandum under discussion...
...Such a document is wholly grotesque, a Pact of Qualifications, not a Pact of Peace. Yet Aristide Briand has won the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926), and his policies are the epitome of pacifism. Only in unprecedented circumstances would he send forth such a monstrosity as the Treaty of last week...
...been feared, before the document was presented, that such a subject discussed outside of the great ecclesiastical bodies would offend conservative opinion; or that to avoid this offense, the document would be framed in terms cautious, trite, and without value. That neither was the case was due to the prestige and adroitness of its two sponsors, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, secretary of the U. S. Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and the Rt. Rev. William Temple, Anglican Bishop of Manchester. Dr. Speer, since his graduation from Princeton in 1889, has attended many a missionary conference. He could doubtless remember those...
...from the bondage of maternal adoration, would yield to his Debonair if only she were at hand. How to get to England? A convenient husband is traveling home alone, with a Victorian man-and-wife passport. Loveday persuades him to let her impersonate the better half of the joint document, but Italian border officials find her far too beautiful for the alleged likeness, even with allowances for its being a passport picture. Loveday is detained in disgrace, only to be accused by the pictured wife of eloping with her Victorian husband...
...document before him comprised new regulations altering the effect of those Mexican oil laws which the U. S. has branded as "retroactive and confiscatory" (TIME...