Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
When pouchy-eyed, foxy M Aristide Briand left the bedside of four-time Prime Minister Raymond Poincare, last week, he had himself held that office on previous occasions eleven times. He was now to make it twelve times?for last week party leaders of the numerous chamber factions agreed, almost unanimously, that no one could fill the political void created by M. Poincaré except M. Briand...
Scotch Andrew Cockburn, chief engineer of the Mauretania that held the Atlantirecord for 22 years had one consolation...
...what to do. "Drop to the floor!" he barked. "It will not explode for five seconds!" He stepped to the window. The courtyard below was filled with other soldiers drilling in the hot sun. To throw the grenade out would kill a dozen men. Gritting his teeth. Lieutenant Jovice held on with both hands, keeping the bomb between his body and the wall. The fifth second passed, then a white flash, a crashing explosion. Lieutenant Jovice slumped to the floor, his right arm torn off at the shoulder. No one else was injured...
...Japanese art circles the work of M. Foujita is considered French, mediocre. In France it is generally held to be Nipponesque, exotic, original. Foujita's women run the gamut from harlots to Madonnas, but all have catlike eyes. Asked last week about his acrobatic Parisian wife, callous...