Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been safely weathered, long hours of sultry word-fencing by M. Briand with at least a dozen orators ensued before the question reached a vote. Fearful that the Deputies would never commit themselves to explicit ratification, the government did not put the issue squarely, as the final showdown came. Instead the Chamber was asked to pass a weasel-Jaw authorizing popular President Gaston ("Gastounet"') Domergue to perform the act of ratification by executive decree. Prior to seeking action on even this weasel-law the government allowed the deputies to vote a resolution expressing their conviction that no matter what...
Robert Henri was not an elegant, sensational painter like the late John Singer Sargent, nor a trenchant controversialist like the late Joseph Pennell. Insurgent, he did not crusade. He taught instead. Born in Cincinnati of French-English-Irish descent, he studied at the Pennsylvania and Julien (Paris) Academies, at the Paris Beaux-Arts. French precision and orthodoxy never made him feel com fortable. Strolling the corridors of the Louvre, he revered Rembrandt, Velasquez, Hals, but was long unable to evolve con victions of his own. Like most fine artists, he remained, even after success, a student of the masters...
...expect, travel often to South America so soon as transportation is swift, safe. Such travelers will willingly pay high, profitable fares. Then it may be that great cities will grow in the South American interior, a region of potentially vast fruitfulness. Then the border cities will become metropolitan terminals instead of the way-stations
Proud as Publisher Macfadden is of his four confessionals, he is most proud of his first brain-child and moneymaker, Physical Culture, which advises seekers of health to go to the gymnasium instead of the doctor, is filled with pictures of full-figured women, brawny near-nuded men with marcelled hair and muscle-bound expressions...
Inventor Perl calculates to leave the ground at 110 m. p. h., reach 310 m. p. h. in 20 minutes, attain the stratosphere by a direct climb at 45 degrees (instead of the usual circling) in 100 minutes, thereafter...