Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early standees may arrive for an especially popular play on the midnight before -full 20 hours in advance. When flesh and blood can stand no longer, the queue folk rent camp stools from hucksters for a few pence each. Then, lest they topple in exhaustion from the stools, they fling several more coppers to street artists and organ grinders who essay to keep the queue awake. Finally standees and sittees dose themselves with coffee sold by vendors who cry loudly the first Hottentot syllable, "hot . . . hot . . . HOT!" Last week Edward of Wales commented sympathetically upon London theatre queues in addressing...
...success in his ambitious scheme to draw Rumania out of the orbit of her time-honored ally, France. An Italian-Albanian-Bulgarian-Rumanian rapprochement spanning the lower Balkans and linked up with Hungary, thus encircling Italy's enemy Jugoslavia, has long been a favorite pipe dream for correspondents. Lest it crystallize into a rumor, M. Titulescu prepared, last week, to visit Paris for a friendly chat with Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France...
Immediately, "this body," the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, which, with official delegations from 28 denominations, was holding annual session in Cleveland, became an uproar. Said the Rev. Dr. George Summey of New Orleans: "Now let's be careful lest we touch matters of a political nature and commit ourselves to something that will soil the garments of the Bride of Christ. . . . There is a wide difference of opinion. Now, let's go carefully." Colored Baptist Dr. W. H. Jernagin pleaded in its favor on the grounds that it would give the Negro church confidence...
...Headlines screamed throughout the globe, when the 21 Delegations voted 15 to 6 in preliminary conclave that not only plenary sessions of the Conference but also committee meetings should be public. Because the U. S. had been expected to demand secret sessions-lest Latins flay U. S. intervention in Nicaragua-universal astonishment reigned, last week, as Charles Evans Hughes calmly cast the U. S. vote for public sessions. Amazing! Now there would be fireworks...
...Tenno Hirohito proceeded amid pomp with his entire Court, last week, to the so-called "Palace of Awe," a shrine especially favored by the spirits of all his imperial ancestors. There he announced to them that on Nov. 10, 1928, he proposes to be officially crowned at Kyoto. Lest any of the august ancestors should not have heard him at the "Palace of Awe," Tenno Hirohito thereupon despatched messengers in quaint, medieval costumes to all the imperial tombs. Soon the revered occupants had no excuse whatever for ignorance of the intentions of their reigning descendant...