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Word: eves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attitude of the Kaiser on the eve of the war is brought out, beyond the possibility of misunderstanding, in a comment he wrote on one of the official dispatches from Russia, which to him sealed the future fate of Germany. He dwells with bitterness on this final triumph of what he considers the machinations of the English diplomatic corps. He also foresees with sadness the years of misery and war, and the final overthrow of Germany. That scarcely sounds to me like the language of a man who has just reached the long awaited hour of glory and conquest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA WILL JOIN THE LEAGUE DECLARES OWEN | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...Grew petulant when Sir Austen Chamberlain refused to bind himself to a definite policy respecting League Council seats on the eve of his departure for Geneva (see THE LEAGUE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: COMMONWEALTH: The Week in Parliament Mar. 15, 1926 | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...Shepton Mallet jail, Somerset, England, a hangman's noose tightened, last week, and snapped out the life of John Lincoln, a British soldier, who last Christmas Eve murdered a certain traveling salesman whose house he was attempting to rob. Some 50,000 English humanitarians signed a petition that the execution be delayed for a few days until the condemned man's father might arrive from Ceylon. The petition was denied. John Lincoln's father is the notorious Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, in 1910 a Liberal M. P. for Darlington, during the War an international spy for both England and Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Lincoln & Son | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...plot, however, is as unusual as it is interesting. It deals with the psychological problem of Luara Regan, who, anxious to marry, but not in the physical sense of the word, on the eve of her marriage to Dudley, is shown by a miracle that her happiness lies only in becoming a bride of the Church, "His Bride," and so enters a convent. Miss Hurst has very definite ideas on the emotions through which Laura progresses to her ultimate goal. These she reveals in a most powerful but, to mind, unpleasant manner...

Author: By Cecil B. Lyon, | Title: Three Delightfully ephemeral Novels | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

This sudden internal crisis demonstrates anew the precariousness of the situation in which France finds herself. On the eve of delicate diplomatic negotiations at Geneva and faced by an almost hopelessly involved financial muddle at home, that country is not only without a government but lacks a majority strong enough to form one. The Communists, Radical Socialists, and Nationalists of the extreme right, whose unnatural union is responsible for the ministerial debacle, seems to have been actuated by partisan political considerations rather than by the single minded and unselfish devotion to the welfare of France, necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH FURBELOWS | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

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