Word: exits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exit the Premier. In Madrid the Alhucemas Government pleaded in vain with King Alfonso (who returned hurriedly to the capital from Satander on the Bay of Biscay, where he had just won two races with his yacht Giralda IV in the annual Royal Regatta), to obtain power to put down the revolution. The Ministry then resigned, and the King recognized the revolution by royal decree, appointing General Don Miguel Primo Rivera virtual Dictator?" President of the National Directorate...
...CLUE OF THE NEW PIN?Edgar Wallace?Small, Maynard ($1.90). Jesse Trasmere, an eccentric millionaire who made his money in China, is murdered in a vault which has no exit whatever except one door, locked from the inside. The only key of that door lies on the table near his body. The sole apparent clue to the murder is a new pin found on the floor of the vault. Suspicion falls upon various characters in turn?a beautiful actress?a former partner of Trasmere's now turned dope-fiend?Trasmere's valet?and so on. The explanation, when it comes...
...This he was unable to do, owing to his throat trouble. A statement to this effect was a signal for a general outburst of Laborite fury. The Red Flag was sung, and the uproar became so terrific that the Speaker was compelled to adjourn the session. In the general exit a good deal of inadvertent jostling occurred. One Laborite complained that he had been hit by a Conservative, whereupon Colonel the Hon. Walter E. Guinness (Under Secretary of State for War), who seems to have been perfectly innocent, received a punch on the nose...
...showing that such attractions as athletics, journalism, dramatics, public speaking, and other collegiate activities were quite unknown; that the faculty tended toward thorough instruction in religion regardless of the field of concentration; and that education was limited to a very few courses on account of the then recent exit of learning from the monasteries. He called attention to the fact that college curriculums, degrees, and faculties developed in the mediaeval university, creating a system which has outlasted empires...
...changing the number of players from seven to six and various others adopted last year have made the American game more like the Canadian. Canadian hockey, individualistic, open, spectacular, is fundamentally opposed to the team play and passing game that Harvard has always used. Sporting writers predicted the prompt exit of the Winsor system down the back-stairs of obscurity. But the three man defence was developed, and the team sat on its high pinnacle as firmly as ever. This year more new rules have caused the further progress of American hockey towards the Canadian, and the Winsor system again...