Word: ens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps the first time since the ascension of Tsar Boris III (1918), His Majesty managed to slip out of Sofia last week en route for Switzerland before rumors could be started that he went in search of a bride. Year after year correspondents have cried "Wolf! Wolf!" to the effect that he was going to marry this princess or that, whenever Bachelor Tsar Boris has set out for his annual vacation (TIME, July 26, 1926, et ante). This year the Tsar resolved to outwit rumor mongers...
...William Thomas Manning, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York, en route to the Lausanne World Conference on Faith & Order, paused in Paris last week to preach: "We all love France and admire Paris, but the present issuing of Paris divorces is a scandalous, shameful thing, which should be corrected; and I do not hesitate to say this here in this city, for I know the clergy of France and all God-fearing Frenchmen and Frenchwomen will say the same as strongly as I do. . . . [Trial marriages and other haphazard conjugalities] are simply harlotry and calling them by new names does...
...greet Kemal all Constantinople was en fete. Fifty thousand electric bulbs were festooned along the streets and from the minarets of Stamboul.* Even at Pera† the Diplomatic Corps and foreigners generally decked their establishments, in honor of Kemal. He came, at last, steaming up the Bosporus on a cream white yacht, once the Sultan's. Twelve large and forty small steamers followed. Turkish gunboats blazed salutes. The whole city rang with Kemal's nickname of honor: "Ghazi," "The Victorious...
...statecraft and the art of France have scarcely produced two things more remarkable than a certain document and the ship on which it was en route last week to Manhattan. The document proposed in a few explicit sentences that the U. S. and France pledge themselves never...
...other Senators, less daring, merely stopped off at Shanghai. They were Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, Montana Democrat, en route to the U. S. from the Philippines, and Senator Guy Despard Goff, West Virginia Republican, en route to the Philippines from...