Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter to Austria. And all this without consultation with his allies. We discussed all this, and I was strongly of opinion that we should go over to Paris at once and register a note to Wilson putting him in his proper place; but I was not able to persuade Lloyd George, and after lunch he went off to Walton Heath. Either he is seedy or meditating a speech. I am certain we (British, French, Italians) ought to get together and put the truth baldly to Wilson. He is now taking charge in a way that terrifies...
...Clemenceau said Lloyd George was a fool...
Onetime Prime Minister Lloyd George, stung by the revelations in the Wilson diary, made haste to reply by publishing "reluctantly" two letters addressed to him by Sir Henry Wilson...
Concluded Mr. Lloyd George: "I need hardly add that I never uttered many of the observations, some of them extremely foolish, attributed to me in these diaries. But that is the way of most diarists, and I have suffered a good deal in the last few years from a variety of them. Words used in jest are treated as if in earnest; words seriously used are torn from their context and therefore having a different meaning, the essentially qualifying phrases invariably being omitted; and then in the inevitable defects of human memory when sentences taken from conversations which lasted...
...second game, the recruit George William Pipgrass of New York outpitched the veteran Victor Aldridge of Pittsburgh by such a wide margin that Pittsburgh had little chance to win. Even here, however, Pittsburgh errors helped the Yankees in their two scoring innings, Outfielder Lloyd Waner duplicating his brother's first game error in the third inning, and Pitcher Aldridge making a wild pitch in the eighth. ¶ Errors apparently could have played no part in the outcome of the third game, which the Yankees won 8-1. Pitcher Herbert Pennock permitted no Pittsburgh player to reach first base until...