Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...partial answer would be that famed Tsarist Commander Peter Nikolaievich Wrangel, Baron Wrangel claims to have a potential army numbering "40,000 White Knights" (TIME, Dec. 27), the members of which are banded together and employed in manual labor as a self-supporting colony in Jugoslavia and pledged to fight for "Holy Russia...
...Droit de Paris; that he was an intimate of Premier Raymond Poincare of France; that he was an intimate of onetime (1917 & 1925) French Premiers Paul Painlevé and (1924-25 & 1926) Edouard Herriot, with whom in 1921 he helped organize the now moribund Ligue de la Republique to fight Alexandra Millerand's Bloc National and establish a policy of democratic post-War reconstruction. M. Rist has been Deputy Governor of the Banque de France for only the past year. He is one of Europe's most profound economists...
...paragraph] and then to a one-line epigram." As he paid only on space it was Spartan ruling. The best sonnets ever written by Aussies-Bayldons on Marlowe and O'Downds "Last sea-thing dredged by sailor Time from Space"-received the same pay as a dog fight...
Richard Burden Haldane, First Viscount Haldane ("Labor Peer"), took exactly the opposite stand, saying ominously: "If you try to strengthen the House of Lords, we part from you. We will fight you as long as we are here...
...almanac. It is not ancient enough to be antique or new enough to be curious, or great enough for the decades. It is just faded. There are offered in stock: 1) an artist, married but fascinated by his model, 2) a wife, married to the artist and ready to "fight for him," 3) a model, beautiful but not for long. In the end the artist comes back home. Most interest attaches to Miss Anglin, who, dedicated in the past to the Greek tragedy in outdoor theatres, brings an austere recitation to her indoor lines...