Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consider for the present President Harding's proposal that the United States adhere to the Permanent Court of International Justice established by the League of Nations. The proposal did not necessitate our joining the League. It did provide that we should vote with members of the League to elect judges of the Court, that we should pay our share of the Court's expenses, that we could ask the Court to function on our affairs, when we preferred, that we could abide by its decisions, if we preferred-no more...
...known whether the Rotary Clubs pay any attention to Mr. Mencken or not. Possibly, if the Baltimore chapter should elect him a member...
Most famous of all his speeches was that against La Follette immediately before America entered the war. The most famous fortnight of his career was in 1912, when he went from Representative to Governor to Senator-elect within 14 days...
Under their Bishop-elect, Adrot, several thousand Roman Catholic priests have founded in France a new Church. The tradition of celibacy of the clergy is 1,000 years old, but they have decided to break with this tradition. Bishops of similar churches in Holland, Switzerland, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and Hungary will be present at Adrot's consecration, which is scheduled for late in April. Two of these had been duly consecrated as bishops before their break with Rome. The new church therefore claims apostolic succession, and the same authoritative basis as the Church of England...
...literary New York? Who are these log-rollers and back-scratchers of whose activities many of us hear, yet whose actuality we are prone to deny? go into the Algonquin some noon. Anyone can do it. Here you will find the famous "round table" at which sit the supposedly elect. Perhaps you will see Brock Pemberton, theatrical producer, whose Six Characters in Search of an Author has been reckoned one of the artistic successes of the year, and who has just produced a dramatization of Julian Street's Rita Coventry. Mr. Adams, the "The F. P. A." of "The Conning...