Word: lente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remarks were doubtless designed also as an answer to Senator Borah and others who are demanding recognition for Russia. Admitting the stability of the Lenin-Trotzky regime, Mr. Hughes asked: "What good is stability in a policy of repudiation and confiscation ? "The Soviet Government has repudiated $187,000,000 lent to Russia by the United States. What is more, it is agitating for a "world revolution" in this and other countries. In other words, recognition would involve the ridiculous situation of our acknowledging a government as a legitimate ruler abroad which refuses in practice to regard our government as legitimate...
...Church once had power to enforce peace from Saturday nights to Wednesday mornings, and during Lent. Offenders were tried in ecclesiastical courts, and disciplined by lay authorities. Churches now seek not a truce, but permanent peace...
...Parisian custom of electing at Mi-Careme (mid-Lent) a Queen of Paris from Queens chosen by each of the 20 arrondissements, or wards, in Paris, will be discontinued. A new plan will be pursued by which each arrondissement will choose a " Bee." From these a " Queen-Bee " will be elected for the whole city. The usual festivities will be much curtailed except for the visit to the President. The Bees are to wear their own gowns instead of having " royal robes " supplied. Girls are to be picked for merit rather than for beauty, as formerly...
Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia, cousin of Wilhelm Hohenzollern: "The Prussian Minister of Finance lent me 18,000,000 marks on my jewels, to pay my debts in Switzerland. When I came to pay back the loan the mark had dropped. So I got out of $330,000 worth of debts...
...revolutionary decision of Parisians to choose their mid-Lent queens according to merit, regardless of beauty...