Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jugoslavia and the Adriatic. Last week the influence of Jugoslavia became definitely predominant at Tirana (the capital) when Ahmed Bey Zogu, the Jugoslav-born President of Albania, called to the Premiership Cena Bey, also a Jugoslav by birth. The Greek faction, headed by onetime (June-Dec. 1923) Premier Bishop Fan Stylian Noli (now exiled in Italy), were reported last week to be seeking aid from Premier Mussolini wherewith to regain control of Albania and oust therefrom the Jugoslavs...
...could go to a football game and watch twenty-two men batter each other into insensibility, and have done with it, I should be the most ardent fan in the world...
...subordinated to the rights of man." George Sutherland, 64, of Utah- "the greatest Constitutional lawyer in the Senate."-William Howard Taft. Pierce Butler, 60, of Minnesota, described by onetime opponents as- "ruthless, intolerant, forceful, impatient with all forms of progressive thought." Edward Terry Sanford, 61, of Tennessee, golfer, cinema fan-"I would rather get a year in Judge Sanford's court than go free in any other. . . ."-A onetime prisoner. Harlan Fiske Stone,- 54, of New York-"the deepest regret I have in seeing him advance to the Supreme Court bench is that he is leaving the Attorney General...
...fan rushed out; struck Mr. McTavey; killed...
Prince Takahito, eleven years old, youngest son of the Mikado, is already famous as an irrepressible and raucous baseball fan. When he attends one of the numerous interuniversity Japanese ball games a special dais is erected for him near third base, and he invariably insists that the game be played to a finish whether or not rain descends...