Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French Parliament reassembled after the New Year's vacation. Premier Herriot was in his place on the Government bench. It was his first public appearance since his illness (TIME, Dec. 22, et seq.), and he attended the session, as he said, to prove his protesting doctors false prophets. To his friends, he said that he was feeling perfectly able to stand the strain of debate...
...Aventine* Opposition-group of about 150 Deputies of the Opposition which has boycotted the Chamber of Deputies since the Matteotti murder (TIME, June 23 et seq.)-seized a chance during this quietus to steal some of Benito's thunder...
...mine. Since then, he has become richer and richer and still richer. He dislikes discomfort, and-as he has money with which to buy comfort-he keeps no fewer than 13 châteaux in various parts of the world-Nice, Biarritz, London, Paris, et cetera...
There is an old-fashioned parlor game in which one person starts a story, another carries it on to a certain point, a third, fourth, fifth, et cetera, continues it, and the last ends...
...wits' end trying to get my husband and my boys and girls up in the morning." A boy of ten wanted to know if the exercises would guarantee his becoming as good a baseball pitcher as able Walter Johnson of the Washington Americans (TIME, Sept. 22 et seq.). "The president of one of the largest public utility corporations in the country"* thanked Mr. Bagley for having reduced his weight ten pounds. "One of those bobbed-haired stenographers" said she used to lie in bed of a morning laughing at the sound of her family doing their daily "physical torture...