Word: inflamedness
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While Storrs snored in his big bed in Government House, in the inland capital of Nicosia, chattering Greeks (who never seem to go to bed) worked themselves up to riot. Some were inflamed by Orthodox priests who told of a "fiery cross" raised against British rule on the heights of...
More mobsmen were inflamed by six members of the Cyprus Legislative Council who denounced Storrs for enforcing a recent order-in-council by His Majesty George V. It erects tariffs explicitly rejected by Cyprus' own Council. "Citizens! Greeks!" cried the disgruntled Councilmen, "KATΩ OI TΥPANNOl!" ("Down...
Mr. Caldwell was in a much worse fix legally than Col. Lea. In the first place he was flat broke. In the second public sentiment was more bitterly arrayed against him. Last week at Nashville he went on trial for fraudulent breach of trust. The charge was that he had...
A man whose bladder has become inflamed by germs is said to have cystitis. Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's physician told him that he had cystitis.
No one phrase has so inflamed the imaginations of mankind, from Babylon to the Abyssinia of Rasselas as "sunken gardens", which even in America are found on only a few of the most magnificent and sumptuous estates.