Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumors of Spanish political crises are as persistent as the odor of the onions named after the Iberian land. But Captain General Primo Rivera, "Spain's Mussolini," last week insisted that the inescapable effluvium savors not of crises but of peace, joy, contentment...
...courtesy of the Governments of the land in which they are situate, foreign embassies are regarded as foreign soil under privileges derived from extraterritoriality, a term of international...
Asahi, Tokyo journal: "The land of Christianity, humanity and liberty has disappeared...
...enjoyment of everybody. They seem to wear magic caps that render them invisible. Russian students, in particular, have changed entirely. There are many of them; but they do not stroll in groups up and down the Anlage; they do not argue-all at the same time- about socialization of land and proletarianization of the peasant; they no longer busy themselves despising every Corps student who passes them and whom they think more stupid than his own bulldog. Indeed the Corps student also has suffered a mysterious eclipse. . . ." "Before the War scientific rationalism was the leading force of Germany, and strictly...
Alan Ian Percy, of the House of Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland, notorious for quoting Nesta Webster, well-known anti-Socialist authoress, was a fighting soldier in Sudan and South Africa and a London soldier in the World War. In 1922, he was reported financially embarrassed, sold much land, rented his mansion on the Thames. But the coal business (Newcastle, etc.) picked up, and the Duke is again rich...