Word: lied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alleged military agreement is a lie and an audacious falsehood! It was the work of a criminal!" A similar disclaimer was soon issued by French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. None the less the responsible Dutch press of Rotterdam, Amsterdam and The Hague continued to display alarm. The extreme view was taken by Amsterdam's potent Socialist daily Volk. After graphically prophesying the "Violation of Limburg" by English troops, its editor sarcastically observed: "And this is the same England which in 1914 declared war because of the violation of Belgium's neutrality...
...they are supposed to be, suffer from the same handicap of having only faulty images on which to base what they will say. The fault is, of course, not peculiar to college students; what is called public opinion is built on a foundation as shaky. Neither should the blame lie wholly on the undergraduates; in most universities there are conditions which keep from the student intimate knowledge of events. But where opinion can be based only on impressions it will never have more than a transitory value...
...some spectators it seemed wise to let Leonardo da Vinci lie quietly in his undiscovered grave in Amboise by the sunny river Loire; to sell pictures for whatever they may bring regardless of recondite aspersions. The New York World editorialized: "We believe it would be a good idea if the court found out whether the talesmen know a Corot from a Wallace Nutting, and whether the Louvre is an art museum, a hotel or a disease. . . . There is grave danger that the verdict will be i cent to the plaintiff, 'with costs on the said Devinchey...
Died. Capt. Luther Sage ("Yellowstone") Kelly, 79, famed Indian scout, foe of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, veteran of Alaska and the Philippines; in Paradise, Calif. Capt. Kelly willed that he be buried in Boot Hill Cemetery (Billings, Mont.), where lie some 40 rascals and heroes who died "with their boots...
...west coast of South America and the east coast of the U. S. are virtually on a north-&-south line with each other. Both coasts lie between 70° and 80° West Longitude. Down part of that geographical corridor started Colonel Lindbergh last week-from New York to Miami to Havana, thence across the Caribbean to British Honduras, thence through Central American countries to the Canal Zone- carrying the first trans-Caribbean airmail. The day he left Miami, Feb. 4, was his 2/th birthday...