Word: highly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese delegates journeyed to New York, there embarking on the Olympic for London, the Post blatted back at Statesman Stimson that it was "sorry if its high praise of Secretary Adams had caused acute pain and humiliation to the Secretary of State...
...morning I was summoned to go to Clemenceau's home," said she in Paris, "I was warned above all not to put rouge on my lips, and not to wear high-heeled shoes. 'Clemenceau has a horror of all those things in women,' I was told. Moreover, I had to use a goose quill pen, because the Tiger always hated the grating of steel pens. I consented to sacrifice these feminine vanities, and went not without trembling to the door of this 'terror of ministers,' this irascible enemy of governments...
Liberal Leader David Lloyd George bleated: "This measure contains some of the worst and none of the best features of Socialism." The Clydeside Laborites, who want the Government to nationalize the coal industry and pay high wages (if necessary out of the taxpayers' pockets), were frankly furious. The vote which followed was the most important since the MacDonald Cabinet took office...
...rainbow bending in the sky, Bedecked with sundry hues, Is like the seat of God on high And seems to tell the news That as thereby he promised To drown the world no more So by the blood which Christ hath shed. He will our health restore...
Greek knows Greek. Tsaldaris knew that there must be aces up Venizelos' sleeves, whether or not they seemed to be rolled elbow high. Said he sulkily:"I will reserve my decision until I can investigate...