Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither the President of the U. S. nor any Cabinet officer is privileged by custom to ask Congress for endorsement or condemnation of any course which he proposes to pursue. Thus President Thomas Woodrow Wilson did not know whether or not he was negotiating at Paris a treaty which would be approved by Congress. But in France it is otherwise. There, Parliament can be asked to register approval or disapproval in advance. With intent to ask such a question, Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, renowned "Lion of Lorraine," went solemnly last week before the Chamber of Deputies...
...lounged on cushions of matched snakeskin M. le Senateur Caillaux could not know that he was near to losing another of his "lives"-this time physically. Most of his previous "deaths" have been political: One, when he failed as Prime Minister (1911-13) to create a Franco-German commercial entente, and was denounced by Frenchmen as a traitor; Two, when scandals touching his private life were exposed by Editor Calmette of Le Figaro who was therefore shot dead by Mme. Caillaux; Three, when M. Caillaux was sentenced for High Treason (1920) because he was thought to have intrigued...
...know hundreds of ladies of the aristocracy and upper classes who believe that they have accomplished a super-human feat when they have presented their husbands with one son, as if they had performed a galling duty imposed by law to the exclusive benefit...
...Know all men by these presents that I, George L. Rickard, being of sound and disposing mind ... do hereby make...
...ceremony, however, was far more important than the prizefight, and to understand why, it is necessary to know something about the present conditions of the prizefight industry...