Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...None knows how to exploit such a situation better than the little Welsh attorney; the only major politician who has had stamina enough really to survive the war. Last week his energy and fire easily surpassed that of any rival; and both Laborites and Conservatives were in deadly fear lest the man who won in 1918 by promising to "Hang the Kaiser!" should hornswoggle the country, outsmart everyone in post-election bar gaining, and by hook or crook achieve the Prime Ministry once more...
Diplomatic officers, forewarned of a Hoover shakeup, were honestly apprehensive lest the President increase commercial attaches' prestige at their expense. Only President Hoover himself can say whether they are unduly alarmed, but symptoms of his impatience, in the past, with the social graces of younger diplomatic secretaries, have not been wanting...
Criticisms. Europeans grew increasingly fearful, last week, lest what they persisted in calling the "Morgan-Young Bank" should turn out to be a glittering gold and silver U.S. strait-jacket for European finance. The dread lest a controlling interest in the new Bank should be vested in Wall Street would not down, last week, even when Mr. Thomas W. Lamont of No. 23 Wall Street (The House of Morgan) solemnly assured correspondents that such fears are baseless...
...Lest any dunderhead should fail to catch his drift, War Minister Voroshilov added that there is another bloated blood sausage which feels tight, namely Great Britain, and that "one need not be particularly Bolshevik to foresee that a solution lies in armed conflict between them...
...crowds cheered Chaliapin again last week, as Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust, a benefit performance which made $7,500 for his Sir Wilfred Grenfell's medi cal mission in Labrador. Lest his audiences should fail to count themselves as blessed, the Great One let it be known that next year he would stay in Europe, traveling, taking his little pleasures.* In the U. S. there are concert tours, a few operatic appearances, fabulous offers from cinema concerns. But in Europe, with friends and family who call him "the little angel papa," he will rest, wear his rough clothes, thunder...