Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reception line forms in the basement and crawls up a red-carpeted stairway to the main floor (see cut), where it turns left into the foyer. Vast mirrors double the crowd. Light sprays from a huge bronze lantern overhead and from countless bronze standards about the walls...
...himself in the President's telephone ("Main 6") and cloakroom or, beyond that, in the Cabinet Room with its long low reddish table, set about with black leather chairs.* Instead, he marches right rear to a door letting him into another corridor. Now he must turn to the left. To the right is the way the President goes when returning to the White House (via the basement) or when going out to his posinground to be photographed...
...still recuperating from the paralytic stroke which he suffered last summer and which, according to his physicians, made it impossible for him to appear and defend himself, the committee in its report merely recommended his final rejection but presented no ouster resolution. To the grim-jawed, vindictive Reed was left the honor and the glory of demanding, one last time, the Senator-Suspect's rejection...
...fact is that M. Poincaré's present coalition of the Right-Center is not expected to hold together much longer. The potent Cartel des Gauches or Coalition of Left Parties-which went into eclipse when Edouard Herriot failed as Prime Minister to save the franc (TIME, April 20, 1925)-is now reviving with esprit and kudos under the leadership of Down-and-Outer Herriot, who may soon...
Each became last week the theatre of a miniature civil war. Troops loyal to President Chiang battled with disaffected soldiery left over from the old regimes of the detested war lords who held sway over China like robber barons before the Nationalist conquest. To picture the situation in terms of U. S. geography, imagine President Chiang in New Orleans (Nanking) hearing that civil war has broken out on the North Atlantic seaboard (in Shantung), and also far inland on a tributary of the Mississippi (in Hunan). China's North Atlantic is the Yellow Sea, and her Mississippi...