Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above figures reflect no particle of what the Government has done in the way of bolstering foreign credits to improve the U. S. farmer's foreign markets...
...measure was repassed and Mayor L. Ert Slack of Indianapolis honored it and ordered the city's clocks set ahead an hour, which was done. But then it was discovered that, though one of the distinguished City Councilmen has written successful novels, the City Council had written an impotent ordinance. There was no enforcement clause. Indianapolitans, including cinema exhibitors, kept their clocks as they chose with impunity. Time passed through Indianapolis on uneven feet. Confusion reigned. Lawyers puzzled...
...Exalted Personage and one Albert Rowlands, laborer, employed by the Office of Public Works. Scene: near Hyde Park corner, on the famed bridle path called Rotten Row. Laborer Rowlands is laying a kerbstone along the edge of the Row. Exalted Personage (pulling up his mount): "What is being done here?" Laborer Rowlands (vexed at the question, and not looking up): "What d'you th-" (Then, stammering, as he sees by whom he is addressed) :"I . . . . I mean . . . . I am laying a kerbstone." Exalted Personage (preparing to canter urbanely away): "A kerbstone? Ah, a useful improvement." Laborer Rowlands (wiping cold...
Miss Lloyd George's political debut was balked by Colonel Lawrence Williams who had expected to be allowed to stand for Anglesey and wrathfully declared: "I've been stabbed in the back! . . . Untold harm has been done to Liberalism by the unfair tactics of certain people in supporting a certain young woman...
When the grumbling and spatting climaxed, who should be appointed Minister of Commerce but that suave barrister M. Maurice Bokanowski. He knows the nimbleness of U. S. telephone girls from personal experience. He gets things done in Herbert Hoover fashion (TIME, March 19). Furthermore funds wherewith to buy new telephone equipment were now becoming available through the sound but dazzling financial wizardry of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, the savior of the franc (TIME...