Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Briand made it evident last week that he considers the program of taxation put forward by his friend, Finance Minister Doumer, superior in every way to that formulated by the Finance Committee of the Chamber at the behest of M. Herriot, leader of Le Cartel des Gauches. At the same time he tacitly admitted that the Cartel has rallied and gained sufficient internal unity to make it almost impossible to force the Briand-Doumer measure through the Chamber. Confronted by this annoying impasse, the astute M. Briand decided to make the gesture of Pontius Pilate while at the same...
...three o'clock, as twilight set tled over quiet Brussels, his hollow-cheeked, highbrowed, thin-haired head fell forward on his chest. He was dead...
Over "that un," as he recognized the trap in which he had permitted himself to be caught, there passed dismay, mortification and sheepish acquiescence. Commanded by custom "that un" had no course but to accept the derelict's defense and look forward to the official fee of ?1. "That un" was no less a personage than Sir Travers Humphreys, Recorder of Chichester, Senior Counsel to the Treasury at Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) since 1916, one of London's most eminent attorneys. Ordinarily Sir Travers' fees never think of halting short of four figures...
Burns, the shifty 1929 floor guard, was up and down the court in rapid succession finding the net for five clean tosses and checking his forward in good style. O'Connell whose speed has been a valuable asset to the squad in one of the forward berths, worked well in combination with Filoon and Bailey, and succeeded in caging four goals from the floor...
...attack tailed to get together at Worcester, although the score was one-sided in favor of the Freshmen. The new floor bewildered the first year men, but this afternoon should witness a turn for the better. O'Connell is now holding down the position of left forward regularly and Burns, who has played center and forward, has been shifted to guard. Burns' physique makes him better fitted for guard, where he played while at Andover. He dispiaces Jaffee, who with Filoon, substitute center, will undoubtedly see action in the game this afternoon...