Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Highness may have "a talent for catastrophe," but a newsmagazine of your calibre should not overlook the fact that he also has a talent for breeding Asil Arabian Horses. From what I know, I would say that his main interests are confined to breeding the best horses in the world. His stud in Egypt and Lady Wentworth's stud in England are the only two horsebreeding establishments in the world (except the secret breeding tribes of the Arabian desert to which only the initiated few are admitted) where one can find an unpolluted strain of the blood to which...
...long, patriarchal beard fluttered in the wind. For a moment the Figure was silent, then bellowed: I perceyve here in my majeste How that all creatures be to me unkynde, Lyvynge without drede in worldely prosperyte; Of ghostly syght the people be so blynde, Drowned in synne they know me not for theyr God; In worldely ryches is all theyr mynde...
...gone from 'E. C.' to 'P. C.'," boasted Mr. Thomas once to a British Laborite audience. "That is, I began as an Engine Cleaner and now I'm one of 'is Majesty's Privy Councilors, but I guess you all know I'm still Jim!" Last week the clubbable Minister in Charge of Unemployment soon warmed up Canadians to a personal liking for his breezy, Welsh-Cockney wrays. In his first Canadian press interview, smart Jim Thomas sought to spike the charge that Mother Britain is not playing square with Daughter Canada...
...broadest terms at the subject of his several private conferences with Prime Minister King and numerous Canadian tycoons, including august Sir Henry Thornton, President of the Canadian National Railways. "I do not propose to tell the Canadian people how to carry on their business!" stoutly maintained Jim Thomas. "They know more about that than I do." But he added. "We in Great Britain would like a share in the orders now going to foreign countries. It is a mistake to assume that Governments know nothing of business. Personally I would like to see an Empire Economic Conference held in Canada...
...strive hard to make a great struggle we shall be finished. We must confess that even in Nanking, our capital, we can ask ourselves: how many military and civil officials of our General Staff can be favorably compared in spirit and energy with the foreigners? How many of us know even the scientific way of running our daily Government business...