Word: evener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeared at the last and most brilliant court of the season in attire which attracted even more attention than the blazing massive diamonds on Queen Mary's stately bosom. Not since the late, lantern-jawed Col. George Harvey called down the sarcasm of the U. S. press by reverting to them in 1921, has a U. S. Ambassador to England failed to wear silk knee-breeches to Court. Ambassador Dawes, Chicago hustler, went in his none-too-neat dress suit with long trousers. Next day he read with relish in London's conservative Morning Post...
...Socialist title, "Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner" (after his estate in Hampshire). Unfamiliar with his new position and decidedly uncomfortable in it seemed Sidney Webb, last week, as he entered the House of Lords and went through the ceremony of becoming a peer. It made him feel even more uncomfortable than the silk knee-breeches he used to have to wear when, as President of the Board of Trade (1924), he waited on King George. A heavy scarlet robe covered his gnomelike figure. An ermine collar, seeming to grow out of his greyish-white Vandyke beard, lay hot and moist...
...glance occasionally at the Peeresses' Gallery, wondered what he was thinking, how much of his nervousness might derive from a gracious lady of 71 who sat there calmly watching the ceremony. She, Mrs. Beatrice Webb, last week proved again that she is the same independent, energetic person who, even before her marriage in 1892 to Sidney Webb, was an authority on economics. She has collaborated with him since on more than 30 books and tracts. In 1923 after 30 years as active members of the Labor and Socialist movement they framed their first indictment of capital in The Decay...
...informed M. Poincare, who so informed the Chamber of Deputies, which was then more sternly than ever faced with the necessity of paying 400 millions on August 1, or ratifying the Mellon-Berenger agreement, or else repudiating the entire debt. That would blow France's financial credit beyond even the power of Morgan to save it. Ratification of the Mellon-Berenger agreement became more imminent...
Here was rosebush pruning with a vengeance. Germany's hope of meeting even the Young Plan payments rests largely on further loans from the U. S. Berlin businessmen wrung their hands over the Stresemann "colony" speech. One of them said: "I hope Dr. Stresemann's words will not be interpreted to.mean Germany is opposed to the coming here of American capital. That would be calamitous...