Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor of Germersheim promptly appealed to the League of Nations, demanded that all French troops be withdrawn from his town, lest further citizens be shot. After a day of excitement, the incident lapsed into insignificance. Vain Appeal. Premier Poincare, in no complacent mood after the events of the week, was approached by a delegation representing 4,000 onetime Government employes who have been dismissed in the interest of national economy. Two hundred of the jobless are former mayors, 600 were employed by the Ministry of Justice, 2,200 were dismissed from the department presided over by Premier Poincare himself...
...Shelf. Febrile, mincing, exquisite Frances Starr portrays delightfully the lurid Mrs. Amaranth, come home to Kiwanisport, N. Y., from Europe and worse. Uneasy as a bird of plumage roosting in a barnyard, she is most uneasy of all lest she be considered "on the shelf." Through three acts of easily forgettable humor she defends the honor of her sex appeal. Donald Meek, once again a hilariously henpecked clergyman, spend-thriftily purchases eight kisses from Mrs. Amaranth at his own church bazaar. Thenceforward it is but a step until the glittering and ever competent Arthur Byron, this time a scheming Senator...
...thin red line," " 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy," "Sun comes up like Thunder," "Rag and a bone and a hank o' hair," "Oh East is East, etc.," "The tumult and the shouting dies," "Lest we forget," "The flanneled fools at the wicket, or the muddied oafs at the goals," "Who dies if England Live?" "Sisters under their skins," "The 'eathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone," "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din," and many another...
...editor of the "Atlantic", who in his fear of being less the scholar for being more the teacher does a forensic tightrope act between vitality and the verbal norm. None of these three classes apparently dares give to the undergraduate food for thought, for all appear in constant trepidation lest undergraduates enjoy their lectures. Nor is this word "enjoy" used in any vulgar sense. No one wants Will Durant's "Outline of Philosophy" for his text book and aphorisms for his lecture room diet. But every undergraduate, except the born scholar with the ability to see life through the minute...
...Algeciras. Therefore, the Spanish declaration of last week re-opened on a trumped-up issue a question long ago adjusted mutually by the Powers, and stirred again many always delicate issues. For example, Britain has never been willing that any one Continental power should dominate Tangier lest it be fortified into a menace to the route to India. No one believed last week that Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera would achieve the momentous concession from the Powers which he appeared to seek. Statesmen winked an eye and remarked that the Dictator was only trying to stir up sufficient trouble...