Word: goings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...destruction of two battleships, one cruiser, five destroyers, many a seaplane, and the repulse of a night landing party. General Hero, thick-shouldered, grey-haired, blue-eyed, explained: "The problem of guardsmen at Hancock was to keep the harbor mouth open permitting the Blue ships to debouch therefrom and go to the rescue of endangered Blue vessels off Delaware Bay. This they did successfully...
Last week the efficient Norwegian Foreign Office wangled as go-between with conspicuous success. Moscow held out at first for unconditional recognition, but finally, responding through Oslo to London's overtures, agreed to participate in a prerecognition parley with the British. Result: suave Comrade Valerian Dovgalevsky, the Soviet Ambassador at Paris, received a long code cable from his superiors, ordered his trunks packed, his briefcase stuffed, and hurriedly crossed the Channel. An indifferent sailor, M. Dovgalevsky was grateful for the prevailing calm weather...
...bridges and tow-paths to watch the edifying spectacle of scarlet-coated rowers in flagged and painted barges furiously chasing broods of hissing swans back and forth across the river. No useful or practical result whatsoever is achieved by nicking and classifying the swans, since afterward they simply go on swimming, breeding and hissing on the Thames...
...final disposal of the U. S. debt bugaboo that a short time afterward when the government asked for ratification of the Franco-British debt settlement (TIME, May 10. 1926), it was voted through in a few seconds by a mere show of hands. Comparatively small, as such gargantuan matters go, the British Settlement pledges France to pay ?653,727,900 over 67 years...
Observers, recalling that only last month Walter Winchell, gossip-columnist, had broken his Graphic contract to go with the Mirror (TIME, June 17), thought they saw in the new Gauvreau job an explanation of the ease with which the Winchell contract had been broken...