Word: gime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that his imagination might not be blurred, his initiative eventually retarded" he left the Metropolitan, took over the San Francisco Orchestra for $10,000 a year. There followed months of strife. Friends of the Hadley régime refused to accept him, called him "pro-German," made others suspect. He saw, heard, spoke no evil, swung his great bulk onto the platform, turned his back, hung his cane on the rail before him and made big music till the Cort Theatre was too small and his neighbors forgave him. Now at 55 he has the energy...
...sympathy for the Navy's embarrassment was deduced by observers when they saw onetime (1913-21) Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels going in to call on Secretary Wilbur. Mr. Daniels might well have commiserated Mr. Wilbur for there was a "Magruder" during Mr. Daniels' régime-bristly Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims...
...puppet of the Dictator. Moreover, it was signed on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the suppression of the constitution and the virtual abolition of the Cortes (Parliament) (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). In its implications it is clearly designed to perpetuate the Primo de Rivera régime...
...homage stood a slim, imperious Chinese, clad from neck to heel in a gorgeous, shimmering, blue silk Field Marshal's uniform of his own invention. This personage was the War Lord of Manchuria and North China, the great Chang Tso-lin. Japan has supported his Manchurian régime. Great Britain is believed to have poured not a little gold into his coffers. Last week he was engaged in the gesture of proclaiming himself "Dictator." In a harsh, compelling voice he swore a 20-word oath of his own devising, to the effect that his armies will now "purge...
...Kerensky fled and rallied perhaps 2,000 troops which nearly succeeded in restoring his régime-so nearly without defense was the Lenin faction at first...