Word: gordian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall be no examination by outsiders of Germany's capacity to pay, and finally, that any abatement of France's claim on Germany must be met by a corresponding abatement of the English and American claims on France. If Mr. Baldwin can unravel this tangle or can cut this Gordian knot, he will rank as the greatest statesman--or the greatest diplomat--of the twentieth century...
...League has picked its man well. If anyone can cut the Gordian Knot of the Near East, it is Leonard Wood...
...Island country club. For a short time, the audience can only pin their faith on the author to bring Bill and Mable together, because they are so far separated that there seems no power but the exigencies of the playwright hard put for a quick ending to cut the Gordian knot. But no one is disappointed, for Bill, brought to his senses by several refusals of work, walk the 256 miles back to Philopolis in true Prodigal son fashion, where Mable soon joins him. She has come to a rather ingenuous agreement with Wing on the basis that she will...