Word: evens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...companions, astonished by his strange foreknowledge of events, come to regard him as a sort of unholy ghost. The girl whom he knows his ancestor did marry turns away from him in fear and, tragically, he finds himself falling in love with her sister. This affair is ill-fated even though the lovely Helen knows of Peter's long journey through the years and, like him, perceives that the veils of Time are thin. She is unwilling to see him suffer in an age ill-adapted to his experience, so back he goes to his own century to fondle Helen...
Cheers were not louder even in Moscow last week, where convalescent Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin made an almost exactly similar theatre appearance. Comrade Stalin clapped an actress who sang a Georgian love song. King-Emperor George V clapped vigorously the lilting, sentimental songs of plump, brunette Edith Day, born 33 years ago in Minneapolis...
...George. But turgid, bumbling Conservative Stanley Baldwin was long-winded, unsporting. He congratulated Mr. MacDonald on having "taken the first moment that had been possible in recent years to make his visit. It could not have been done by any Government until the actual time he went!" Mr. Baldwin even suggested, "although I am not greedy of power," that he or some other Conservative prime minister might in future make another such visit. He concluded: "There is no feeling of envy or regret or any feeling of that kind in my heart...
...their feet leaped all the Deputies except a handful, and every single party leader except Louis Marin of the extreme Right, who gave the perfect touch of drama by sitting with arms folded, glow- ering. Amid such a frenzy as even M. Briand has seldom stirred, the Great Man descended with grandeur. But would the Chamber vote as it cheered? Dopesters thought not?conceded to the Cabinet at this point only a slim chance of winning a majority...
...lava stream a little hill made an island of refuge. On it huddled a group of the same peons who had waved to him three days earlier, men, women, children. They were completely marooned. Inch by inch the lava stream crept higher. There was no possible escape. Even in the plane the heat was almost unbearable...