Word: gauntly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...names presented to Clark at 5 Randolph Hall before Saturday of this week, stands as follows: for president, Winslow Carlton of New York City, Charles McKim Norton of New York City, and Edward William Sexton of Winchester; for vice-president, William Temple Emmet of New York City. Thomas Gaunt Moore of St. Louis, Mo., and James Luther Reld of Somerville; for treasurer John Parkinson Jr. of Charles River Village, Henry Frederick Schwarz of Greenwich, Conn, and William Sterling Youngman Jr of Brook line...
...TIME, Oct. 1, 1923), he traveled to the U. S. to plead the cause of his mutilated country. Standing erect, well over six feet tall, gaunt & sinewy, his grizzled beard almost covering his necktie, he is a commanding figure. And speaking a dozen languages fluently?English almost perfectly?with a rare gift for oratory and inescapable charm, he has made himself a world-wide figure, known intimately, and usually beloved, by the statesmen of at least two continents. It is doubtful if the word of any living Hungarian carries as much moral weight as that of Count Apponyi...
Minorities. In the Council a heated argument took place between tall, gaunt Count Albert Apponyi of Hungary and nervous, excitable Nicolas Titulescu of Rumania. The treatment of Hungarian minorities in Rumania has long been a subject of severe dispute. Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, attempted to lay down three guiding principles for the treatment of former Hungarians now in Ru- mania by virtue of the peace treaty...
...given originally to a Polish group, but because the public complained that it was adulterated and caused blindness, and also because they refused to buy it, the concession was withdrawn. The new move is an attempt to provide the people with "pure stuff" at popular prices.- Robbers. From the gaunt heights of wild Kurdistan, a mountainous district lying partly in Turkey and partly in Iraq, a bold band of brigands swooped down upon the lowland villages, terrorizing the inhabitants. Then, gathering up their loot the lusty robbers staggered back into their impregnable fastnesses. In Angora the authorities fumed, impotent...
...four years are over, the gaunt spectre of divisionals has been met and, in most cases, thrust aside, and now for a brief week, the Senior sits high with the world at his feet: With the Baccalaureate Service tomorrow in Appleton Chapel opens a round of ceremonies, gay and solemn alike, calculated to send the graduate out from the University with a memory of a short hour of triumph to cap the remembrances of four years of struggles as an undergraduate...