Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goldoni and Capek has been immense. It need not descend to a stereotyped school day selection of classics performed a thousand times before; but the wise admixture of great drama of the past with the significant plays of the present in one season would keep a balance of interest and a constant high level of importance...
...most states the adjournment of the legislature is an incident of interest only to the politically-minded. In Arkansas a fortnight ago it was a capital event, at least to the Haley Potato Chip Co., whose manager placed in the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette this advertisement...
...March 18) is a polite rephrasing of the U.S. Senate's notorious "Reservation V," drafted to provide for U.S. adherence only on condition the Court would not, without U.S. consent, render "an advisory opinion touching any dispute or question in which the United States has or claims an interest." As finally approved by the League Committee, last week, this brusque language is softened without emasculation, thus...
...With a view to insuring that the court shall not, without the consent of the United States, entertain any request for an advisory opinion touching any dispute or question in which the United States has or claims an interest, the Secretary General of the League of Nations shall, through any channel designated for the purpose by the United States, inform the United States of any proposal before the Council or Assembly of the League for obtaining an advisory opinion from the World Court and thereupon, if desired, an exchange of views as to whether an interest of the United States...
Grave issues of state and politics sharply focused world interest, last week, on Edward of Wales and on the leaders of Great Britain's three political parties. The secret had leaked out−after months of official concealment−that President William T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State has been challenging the authority of the Crown Council as at present constituted. All ordinary powers of the King-Emperor were signed over by stricken George V (TIME, Dec. 17), to this Council, which consists of the Prime Minister, Lord High Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of York...