Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resignation from the Liberal party of Sir Alfred Mond, with the added declaration that Sir Alfred will hereafter consider himself a Conservative, and the explanation that he has taken this action because the Land Tenure Reform scheme to which Mr. Lloyd George has pledged the Liberals (TIME, Dec. 12 et ante) amounts, in Sir Alfred's opinion, to "nationalization of agricultural lands. . . [to which] I am absolutely and unalterably opposed...
...Wrangle. Some 25 Deputies were delegated by their comrades to arise and propose over 100 amendments to the Cartel Finance Measure (TIME, Feb. 1, et ante), which was literally thrown to the Chamber by the disgusted Premier...
...unhampered by modesty, appeared as "a statuet vender," and held up to view a statuet which those in the first ten rows pronounced to be an excellent likeness of herself. Mlle. Parisys announced loudly and stridently in argot that she would tell the world it was a good likeness: "Et maintenant, Messieurs! Combien pour moi (holding up the statuet)? How much for me?stiff like this...
Despatches reported that Super-Tuchun Chang, who is reconsolidating his grip upon Manchuria (TIME, Jan. 4 et ante), has apparently incurred the active displeasure...
Most people recall "bad" Bishop Brown; how he wrote a book Communism and Christianism; how for his unorthodox, "heretical," unregenerative ideas the Episcopal Church in General Convention in New Orleans last October (TIME, Oct. 5 et seq.) ejected him. But this 70-year-old retired bishop fooled them. He, William Montgomery Brown, has been secretly, since the previous June, a bishop in the Old Catholic Church...