Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most democratic and at the same time the most exclusive of all orders of chivalry. . . . † It is recruited from that very limited circle of men who see what is needed to be done, and do it at once at their own peril, and having done it, shut up like an oyster...
...late King Edward VIIth's first automobile (a Daimler like George V's last) puffed and wheezed ahead of Captain Malcolm Campbell's 200-mile-an-hour Bluebird. There was a League of Nation's float and a Good Turn Truck on which a Boy Scout turned and flapped flapjacks...
...proclamation made at New Delhi by the Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin. His actual words were merely to repeat to Indians the pledge (which every British Government has made for a decade) that some day the Indian Empire will be granted full "dominion status" with a self-governing Parliament like Canada...
...Like a Mark Antony come to bury Caesar, M. Briand reached his first climax by weeping with a purpose over Germany's late, great Dr. Stresemann, his colleague in striving for Peace and swift evacuation of the Rhine: "While he lived there were Germans who criticized and ridiculed Stresemann. Many called him traitor for his friendship to France! Now they heap flowers on his tomb. . . . The French Nationalists have attacked me, as the German Nationalists attacked Stresemann! . . . He died at his task. Must one die then, to prove one is sincere...
Rushing on like a surfboard rider upon the flood of his discourse, M. Briand spoke for 90 minutes before reaching his grand climax...