Word: hornets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unhappy M. Avenol winced at this shrewd Chinese sting, zzzz came the Japanese League hornet, Consul General Matsayuki Yokoyama, to sting him on the other flank because he had said that Japan no longer has any League "rights." Agreeing that she has no "obligations" Mr. Yokoyama loudly demanded for Japan well-nigh every privilege she has ever enjoyed at Geneva, except actual membership in the Assembly and Council...
...British correspondent who managed to see him at Munich, Realmleader Hitler declared with rising inflection: "If anyone attacks Germany, he will fall into a hornet's nest because we love freedom as much as we love peace. . . . We give assurance that no pressure, no need, no force will ever lead us to sacrifice our honor, or the right to equality with other nations! I regard it as indispensable to announce this...
...hornet last week because she had not thought of the dream party was Professional Hostess Elsa Maxwell whose living comes from giving unimaginative socialites just such tips on how to have fun. A fat, nervous spinster whose business slogan is "It's too, too divine!" she went from San Francisco to Europe to teach boom-time U. S. millionaires and miscellaneous princelings how to have Murder Parties, Come-As-You-Were-When-the-Autobus-Called Parties, Scavenger Parties, Come-As-Somebody-Else Parties, Come-As-Your-Opposite-Parties, Come-As-the-Person-You-Like-Best Parties. Elsa Maxwell gave...
...consequent long cruising range. Britain, well equipped with bases from which to refuel her fleets, would like to build smaller war boats, thus enabling her to pack a greater number of fighting units inside her global tonnage. This the U. S. cannot permit, fearful of a British swarm of hornet ships. Britain in turn fears what the U. S. might achieve with a sudden thrust of mammoth ships in a great battle such as Jutland...
...Free State this speech may have made President de Valera seem a bigger man, but at Geneva it stirred a hornet's nest among the small minority of small nations, such as Switzerland and Panama, still hostile to Russia's entry. The Swiss Government, strongly conservative, grew so excited that Swiss reporters at Berne conjectured fantastically, "If Russia is admitted we may resign and the League may have to move out of Switzerland." It took M. Barthou, Sir John and the Italian Chief Delegate, tall, hollow-cheeked Baron Pompeo Aloisi, about 24 hours to get the drafting work...