Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know . . . but I've never been punished for anything unless I was in wrong." When Mr. Doty reached Paris, last week, he said: "Once an officer asked me why I had joined the Foreign Legion, and I had to tell him that I didn't for the life of me know. He said I must have been crazy." At London correspondents discovered, last week, one Thomas William Whitman, an Englishman who had just arrived from Africa after successfully deserting from the French Foreign Legion. "We were punished by Legion officers," he said "for slight mistakes with lashes from...
Once more secure in leadership, Mr. MacDonald led a savage attack in the Commons last week upon Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, charging that he "disregarded the decencies of public life" when he recently refused to enter debate in defense of his coal policy (TIME, Nov. 28). Finally the Laborites introduced, last" week, a motion censuring the Government which was automatically voted down by the Conservative majority...
Said Chief Justice Taft, descriptive: "The Langley Medal was established in memory of the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Samuel Pierpont Langley. During the last 15 years of his life Dr. Langley's primary interest was in making possible man's flight...
...When published, it temporarily wrecked the good Professor's academic career?for in it he dared to suggest that Wilhelm II might fall a prey to that madness born of power which destroyed the reason of the Roman Emperor Caligula (12-41). Because Professor Quidde has continued all his life to militate against militarism and to propagate German peace societies, he loomed, last week, as a distinguished "fraternizer" in the Nobel sense...
...confidence by the clergy of Long Island. I could have gone away with several thousand dollars and probably would have been much happier elsewhere, but I am not to be browbeaten or persuaded by a gift of money. An Episcopal minister has the right to hold his post for life or during good behavior. Much as I regret all this publicity, it is a case of fight from...