Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rides to hounds, and it does more; it hounds its readers to ride. Steeplechasing, polo, the court games, and its more gentlemanly side of aviation are its favorite themes. There is no humor in these things, but plenty of fun can be poked at their devotees. The Lampoon has done a good...
...that Russia at her worst has done nothing worse than France has done! France has repudiated four-fifths of her national debts, and there are many British people who patriotically lent money to France during the War who have been practically ruined by France bilking her national obligations...
...woman." "Mr. Snowden has used a most offensive term!" cried anguished Sir Austen. "A most offensive term about a friendly nation - our nearest neighbor - describing them as 'bilkers!' An offensive slang term from the gutter! ... I say deliberately that no worse day's work has been done in any Parliament! Nor any greater harm!" Sir Austen seemed actually beside himself with grief and shame. "Bilkers!" his French friends had been called "Bilkers! !" As other Conservatives followed the Foreign Secretary, all flaying Mr. Snowden and all greatly exaggerating his slip, he became positively livid with rage. "I retract...
...nothing in this country that makes for its happiness, for the health of the rising generation, or for the health of woman in her later years, comparable to seeing that proper care is taken of her in her confinement. A great physician told me, recently, that if this were done in every case in this country he would close half of the women's hospitals in Great Britain. We have come to the conclusion that the maternity benefit provided by the National Health Insurance Act is not at present being administered to the best possible advantage. The present rate...
...even into the world of nature-was invented, in view of the deplorable scarcity of cuckoos that might take upon themselves the task of loudly singing "Summer is icumin in." However that may be, the Vagabond, last Saturday, having seen in the papers that this great invention-which has done more for sharpening the mind of the nation than cross word puzzles and "Ask Me Another" combined was about to be put into force again, decided to be a bit beforehand and improve the shining hour-and his physical well-being by undertaking an excursion up the silvan Charles...