Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Popery!" agitated England from end to end. M. Edouard Herriot, who was considered certain to be made Premier of France the moment President Millerand was forced out, stated in a letter to his allies the Unified Socialists, what his foreign policy would be. The two main points were: 1) abandonment of Poincare policy in the Ruhr; 2) suppression of the French Embassy to the Vatican. As might well be expected the conservative French press let out one prolonged howl and showed that it intended to make full use of the proposed break by appealing to religious sentiment, 38/39...
...Bedroom Window. The main mystery in this mystery melodrama is whether the audience are supposed to take it seriously. It deals with the solution of a murder during which most of the cast act, at times, in the most exquisitely idiotic manner. Ethel Wales, for instance, portrays a mannish woman novelist, who smokes insidious cigarettes and solves the crime, principally by climbing across an apartment house court on an ironing board. Even May McAvoy, who generally seems real even when the rest of the picture goes hang, is made to appear just a goofy little birdie. At that, the picture...
...disease, after the British physician who first described it. One of the prominent symptoms is a bronzing of the skin, but the proverbial thickness of the elephant's hide had prevented this symptom from becoming apparent. The heart of the elephant weighed 75 pounds, and its main blood vessels were like steampipes. It was apparently only 95 years old. It's life having been cut off during it's prime by this unusual disease. Its Iife expectancy would ordinarily have been about 200 years...
...Courts of Justice, the Rector of the University of Louvain, surrounded by a brilliant array of professors in caps and gowns-were all in the church when His Eminence, accompanied by his Suffragan Bishops and preceded by Monsignori, Cathedral Canons, superiors of religious orders and clergy, marched up the main aisle, between a double row of clerics wearing over their cassocks white surplices trimmed with red.. The Cardinal, vested in cope and mitre, blessing right and left, by his imposing stature dominated the cortege and the crowds as he has dominated the history of the past years...
...main business before Harvard's board of baseball strategy is to prevent Yale from making a clean sweep of the year's major sport contests, and for that reason today's game with Tufts is looked upon almost wholly as the last step in the preparation for Yale. Tufts will be the host of the Crimson nine at Tufts Oval at 3 o'clock...