Word: flares
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States. I do not think that the treaty protects their rights." If the treaty should be rejected and the Senate should instruct the President to take steps to raise the U. S. flag over the Isle of Pines, an acute situation would result. Cuba's Latin emotions would flare up. She would cry: "Outrage!" Our relations with her would be strained. The effect of such action would spread throughout Latin America, where it would be seized upon as another example of U. S. "imperialism...
...part of his supporters gave Dean Academy a 6 to 5 victory over the Harvard seconds on the Freshman Field yesterday. The undefeated visitors came near having their streak broken, as the seconds got a four-run lead in the first two innings and a ninth inning flare-up just missed reversing the outcome...
...Florence Eldridge) in an apartment which has every luxury but a marriage certificate. Then comes a series of sometimes tortuous incidents and in the end he loses the girl, his business, his partner, whose wife has meanwhile cast a halo over the proceedings by her faithfulness, except for a flare-up to show she is human...
Welded. Eugene O'Neill takes matrimony drastically between thumb and forefinger and turns it over for inspection, shaking it rather roughly. He finds a union between two vivid temperaments to be unsuccessful. He concludes that, in the process of fusing, these two personalities are liable to flare up into a white hot flame that may consume them both...
...fortnight ago a secret service agent caused a flare-up in the Philippines. He was accused of graft, acquitted and reinstated after his trial by Governor General Leonard" Wood. Thereupon the Cabinet - or more properly the " Council of State" - resigned (TIME, July...