Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wales, ex-Premier George remarked: "Never have I witnessed greater political confusion and perplexity. We have Conservative Ministers talking Socialism and a Socialist Premier playing the rōle of a timid Conservative-and the Liberal Party standing at the door of its shop while both the others take off its stores...
...long ago but that living men could well remember and tell it to their grandchildren, Japan lived in isolation, well contented. One day there came a knocking at our door and looking forth we saw strange sights indeed. Fantastic folk, in awesome ships, with gruesome guns, held out the hands of friendship?and thus came America and Commodore Perry to our shores...
...Lansing-Ishii agreement, said to have been drawn up by Viscount Ishii and President Wilson in 1917, was to affirm the principle of the Open Door in China. A paragraph, however, recognized Japan's "paramount interest"?a part which led the Japanese to suppose erroneously that the U. S. was intent upon abandoning her interest in the Far East...
...Sainta" or conning the dreary pages which told of the peregrinations of Rolle and his tutor. The moving pictures had not yet been heard of, and the thought of Sabbath baseball games was still locked in the imagination of the hopelessly depraved. Reading was the universal in door sport, prescribed and supervised by parent and pulpit...
...resulted in the adoption of a report which almost, though not quite, upheld their extreme position. The Methodist Church was put on record as being opposed to the draft of military service unless Capital and Labor were simultaneously drafted. Said Dr. Gray: "If the Government comes to my parsonage door and takes my two sons, sends them to foreign lands to fight in mud and give their lives, I am not going to stand aside and see the laymen of Wealth and the laymen of Labor profit...