Word: foe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Only slightly less remarkable than the touch of magic by which, on the stage, a live rabbit emerges from an egg omelet is the sudden transformation of the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin, of Alabama, from a fiery foe of the interests, an implacable enemy of the Republican party, the unwavering opponent of the Administration, the chief oratorical exponent of progressive Democracy, into a co-worker with Mr. Coolidge, a supporter of Mr. Mellon, a helpful aide to the harassed Smoot, a floor manager for the Administration...
...only oasis is LaGuardia, sturdy, two-fisted Congressman, worthy foe of any man. He has no chance of keeping the proceedings impartial. His efforts will fall as flat as the foam on near-beer...
Plastiras. Onetime Dictator Plastiras, exiled foe and perpetual rival in conspiracy of Dictator Pangalos (TIME, March 1), turned up at Skoplje, Jugoslavia, and wandered out among its environs "to look for a villa." Several Jugoslavian policemen drifted out in the same direction. When Plastiras attempted to escape toward the Greek frontier they closed in and firmly escorted him back to Skoplje. The Jugoslavian authorities declared that they are offering to Colonel Plastiras "the hospitality due a political exile...
...that nationalism still continues to bar the progress of international cooperation. The question of enlarging the council has proved a serious stumbling block. By promising Germany a permanent seat in the select little coterie of the inner chamber, the Locarno signatories felt that they were merely restoring their erstwhile foe to her former place among the European powers...
...Listerine, foe of halitosis...