Word: evener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reactions. Abroad, the news of Labor's victory was warmly received. In Washington, Naval officials pointed out that even though the Labor party had no clear majority, the diehard, nationalistic Tory group was definitely defeated. On receipt of the news President Hoover began planning to call another international conference on naval reductions...
...Even narrower than Lady Astor's was the squeak of immaculate, bemonocled Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary of the Baldwin government. In the West Birmingham constituency which his late great father, "Joe" Chamberlain, pillar of Liberalism, established as a family vote-preserve, Sir Austen heard he had a lead of only 50 votes over his Labor opponent. Incredulous, he demanded a recount. His lead then shrank to 43. In contrast, Sir Austen's humbler young halfbrother, Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, won what the London Times called "the most outstanding Conservative personal victory," a majority...
Whether the Brazilian editors knew it or not, Miss Brazil was but one of many Manhattan arrivals from far lands for the Galveston contest. Her presence, like theirs, received nothing more than routine mention, even in the tabloid press where stories and pictures of female pulchritude are so standardized that it is scarcely necessary to change the names from day to day. Characteristic was an item in Variety, theatre weekly, which published an article on the hotel accommodations and diet of the Galveston contestants, entitled FOREIGN BEAUTS CRAVE HOT MEAT...
...Station that a banquet to Detective Tokuda was arranged. A long table was set up in the station house. Detective Tokuda, in a handsome grey kimono, sat at the head while smiling policemen and bespectacled detectives sat down to rice, pineapple and many a bottle of strong Japanese beer. Even the stern, shaven-headed Captain of Police condescended to drink a foaming glass or two to honor his subordinate...
...distinction as an authoress five years ago when she published Green Thursday, followed in 1927 by Black April. All her major characters are South Carolina Negroes, drawn as she has known them all her life on a South Carolina plantation. Not everything that plantation Negroes do is charming or even pleasant to contemplate. But nearly everything that Mrs. Peterkin's characters did and said was interesting. She has a great talent for creative observation and description, for realistic folklore...