Word: ghent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unconventional Mr. Dawes has again performed the extraordinary. His dramatic failure to bring the good news from Ghent to Aix in the recent Senatorial fight over Warren's cabinet appointment will surely become history. There is a universal appeal in the thought of the picturesque President of the Senate abruptly terminating his slumbers; hastily adorning himself amid gentle remarks to an elusive garter or collar-button; writhing in a taxi with crimson face and twitching fingers: and addressing soothing epithets to a conscientious traffic-cop; bounding, three at a time, up the Capitol steps, slithering through its polished corridors...
...Institute of International Law was founded at Ghent, 51 years ago. Last year it held a 50th Anniversary meeting in the room that saw the first meeting. Later, the 30th Conference was held in Brussels...
...International Politics at Chicago, where birds of another feather flocked together. Some of the steady and conscientious who recently addressed the gathering in the Windy City were: Dr. Herbert Kraus, Professor of International Law at KÖnigsberg University; Dr. Charles de Visscher, Professor of International Law at Ghent University; Sir Valentine Chirol (see above...
...Charles de Visscher of Belgium, Professor of International Law at Ghent University, whose subject is International Problems of France, Belgium and Western Europe...
...Born 1862 at Ghent of pious Roman Catholic parents who educated him in the Law. However, his love of silence and "poor elocution" soon induced him to abandon that career. For many a year he lived and wrote in the ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Wandville, Normandy. Except for "an original look expressing his inner field of serene vision," he is in appearance a prosperous, healthy burgher of Ghent. Tall, thickset, he boxes, cycles, shoots, rows. He has been variously called "the Edison of the immaterial world" and "the Belgian Shakespeare...