Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jeers. "We respectfully suggest that the last sweet dose of love and kisses be ladled out to Mr. Ford's new-found friends by leaving the name Ford off the new car. Let it be called instead, let us say, the Solomon Six, or the Abraham Straight-8"?New York Daily News...
...Caillaux, then, divorced from onetime Mile. Henriette Rinouard, who, as Mme. Caillaux, shot and killed Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro on March 16, 1914, because his paper was attacking her husband? Naturally M. Caillaux has not divorced so faithful a wife. Instead, the lady to whom he referred was his wife by an earlier marriage, Mme. Gueydan. She, a woman of the greatest selfmastery, has retained a position of dignity and honor, despite the astounding ups and downs of M. Caillaux who, for example, was convicted by the French Senate of "plotting against the security of the state abroad...
Fourteen months ago such a tide of resentment was at the flood. It might have led King Ferdinand of Rumania on to better fortune for his dynasty, had he dared to brave Jon Bratiano then. Instead Ferdinand I, weak, invalided, accepted M. Bratiano's resignation as Premier without comment, and meekly called one of the Bratiano henchmen, General Fofoza Alexander Averescu, to the Premiership...
...recent years he has made a sound, tenacious success in politics. His voice, his jaw and his eyes are hard-not particularly pleasant. Therefore, it would have been easy last week for him to make at Shanghai a statement calling for "strong measures" by the U. S. in China. Instead Mr. Bingham expressed so utterly the opposite view that his words had double weight. He said...
...moments before-as the moon's age is reckoned-such an event would have caused cowering, ululations and doomsday prophecies among mankind. But last week, instead of scurrying into caves or cellars, mankind made merry and flocked to the totality belt for observation, lay and scientific. In the British Isles there were eclipse houseparties and a national holiday. Scandinavians, accustomed to staying up late at this season of the midnight sun, redoubled their nocturnal festivities to view a sight that will not again be seen by most of Europe until 1961, by England until...