Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Journal des Débats: " The natives of our colonies always have been considered as our real brothers. . . . Let it be thoroughly understood that we will not tolerate their being ejected without reason at the request of foreigners who ... in daring to do so show a singular lack of tact...
Because of the lack of diplomatic relations with Washington, Turkey was, of course, well within the boundaries of diplomatic etiquette in refusing officially to lower her flag. Although the matter is of no importance, a less rigorous observance in this matter would have left a pleasanter impression and cost nothing...
...worth the candle and that the only thing to do is to give up the Spanish Zone in Morocco or govern peaceably. At all events Foreign Minister Senor Santiago Alba greeted Don Luis Silvela with great warmth, but the Minister of War's greeting was conspicuous by its lack of good feeling...
...Shantung; General Chang Wen-Tang, commander of the Puchow railway police; General Ho Feng-Yu, Defense Commissioner at Yenchowfu; Chao Te-Chao, officer commanding the guard on the train. All these persons are never again to be employed in the public service. The note also animadverts sharply on the lack of security for foreigners in China...
...Redden, President of the Aeromarine Airways, announced the abandonment of daily services to Atlantic City from New York. The service has been in operation since 1921 and lack of patronage as the novelty wore off is the cause of the Company's transfer of its interests to the Cleveland-Detroit route, where it is doing extremely well. Mr. Redden blames New Yorkers and praises the superior courage and enterprise of business men in the automobile centers. But perhaps it is more a question of geography. The London-Paris air services are busy because they enable passengers to avoid...