Word: foes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imitation is generally considered to foe flattering. In 1921 Dr. Harry A. Garfield, head of Williams College, son of the assassinated President, called the first session of the Williamstown Institute of Politics. This unique annual event has attracted attention for ihe quality of the foreign lecturers who addressed it, the prominence of the experts who conducted its special Round Table conferences, the timeliness of the subjects discussed. Its first session was dignified by the venerable figure of the late Lord Bryce, and it has been rumored that the preliminaries to the Washington Arms Conference of 1921 were conducted...
Unquestionably, the phonograph manufacturers have been somewhat uneasy in watching the huge forward strides made by the apparently competing radio industry. Yet, judging from the experience of the Victor Machine Co. at least, the radio seems to be a friend rather than a foe. Victor's Camden (N. J.) plants are working at capacity to turn out enough machines and records to satisfy the demand. The Premier Graphophone Company's new plants are fully employed, and its production schedule is the largest on record...
...House for a moment, but the Prime Minister soon made it clear that the Government had no intention of resigning. He accepted defeat, but said that he would give facilities to a "Prevention of Evictions Bill," Liberal measure, and would use only local funds for whatever money might foe necessary. (Great shouts of joy from the Liberals). Continued the Premier: "The bill in its present form is altogether unsatisfactory. But I have asked the law officers to consider it with a view to amending it in committee. There, I think, we shall all cooperate and make it as satisfactory...
...Greeks into the sea at Smyrna after a thunderbolt campaign in August, 1922. British troops at Chanak, on the Dardanelles and on the Ismid Peninsula, covering Constantinople, were faced by a threatening concentration of victorious Turkish troops. Lloyd George, genius of the Greek policy in Asia Minor and bitterest foe of the Turk in Europe, called on the Dominions to rally to the defense of the Straits and on the Balkan Nations to join in an anti-Turk crusade. The British public decided that this attitude meant war, and Lloyd George was ousted bag and baggage to let "the only...
...Turkey instead of turning Turkey bag and baggage out of Europe. It signified the complete shipwreck of Lloyd George's five years' nursing of Greek ambitions. Flouting the conservative policy of seven decades, it exposed Turkey to intrigue and direct military pressure from Britain's perennial foe, Russia. It excluded France, Italy and Great Britain from exploitation of the spoils of war. It practically abandoned all pretence on the part of the Great Powers to protect the Christians in Turkey, cardinal point of Gladstone's eastern policy. The terms of the Straits Convention reduced British opportunities...