Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shake hands, with a male novelist, Eustace Bylant. Eustace is admirably veneered, intellectual, a good talker, no carnalite. Seeing that if she lives with him she can escape other male companionship, Gita proposes?not exactly marriage, of course: a ceremony for talk's sake, but after that just a joint roof and dining table...
...Germany came forward proposing a security treaty. pointed out that, with her army limited to 100,000 men, she was as badly in need of a guarantee of safety as any other nation in Europe. She proposed to guarantee the Rhine frontier and to provide in a joint treaty with France, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, that any nation which violated that frontier should ipso facto have declared war on the others...
...continue present wages; 2) to appoint a semi-public fact-finding body to prepare data for a future settlement; 3) a contract for 18 months to expire Apr. 1, 1927. On this same date, the wage contract in the bituminous coal fields expires, raising the prospect of a joint strike of both hard-and soft-coal producers. This prospect is not without advantages to both operators and miners. To the anthracite operators, it would mean a strike without the prospect of losing any of their market by the public's taking to soft coal as a substitute...
...City and State of Vera Cruz sent a joint claim to the Federal Government at Mexico City requesting collection from the U. S. Government of 1,645,000 pesos ($822,500) for damage incurred during the U. S. ocupation...
...Scotland, indicative of the opening of the second biennial conference of the World Federation of Educational Associations. Founded in the U. S. in 1923 (TIME, July 2, 9, 16, 1923), headed by Dr. Augustus O. Thomas of Maine, this body promotes world peace by congregating, for handshakes, headshakes and joint resolve, the educators of the world...