Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Etat, c'est moi,* "beamed Louis XIV of France. Secretary Frank Billings Kellogg might paraphrase: "The State Department, that's me." Last week, in an aftermath conversation about Senator Carter Glass's criticism of the State Department's foreign loan policy (TIME, Oct. 24), in retort to a rumor that the State Department was of divided opinion on the subject, President Coolidge said he had always assumed that the Department of State was the Secretary of State...
...Pugsley Scholarships in International Law were awarded to Alastair MacKinnon, of Halifax, N. S., and Frank Randall of Portland...
Animal Variations. Dr. Frank Collins Baker, curator of the museum of natural history of the University of Illinois, found in a Wisconsin artificial lake several species of shellfish peculiar to fresh running water. At the end of the lake where streams entered, the mollusks had remained true to type. At the other, their shells had thickened; grown stubbier. This situation apparently proved that environment produces new varieties in low-grade forms of life...
...Frank Crowninshield, famed editor of Vanity Fair, Forbes Watson, editor of The Arts, William Henry McBride, Jacob Epstein,† lyn Museum of Art, Art Critic Henry McBride, Jacob Epstein,* famed sculptor, agreed that "The Bird" was a worthy example of fine art. Most emphatic was Sculptor Epstein, who brought with him to court a 5,000 year old piece of stone, reputed to be an Egyptian representation of a hawk. "It is a matter of indifference what it represents," said Sculptor Epstein, "but if the artist calls it a bird, so do I. In this there are certain elements...
...current issues of two weeklies there are charges that in two countries which during the past year have been the scenes of American interest, trouble has still been going on without benefit of publicity. The Nation, always a trouble-maker, quotes first Mr. Frank Stimson, President Coolidge's representative in Nicaragua, as reporting to his chief on the fourteenth of May that the insurrection in that troubled country was ended; and follows with a list of casualties since that date in the continued fighting between the Marines and the natives; fighting which however necessary, has been all but completely ignored...