Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Point was lent by last week's stock-taking to a remark by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, March 29, THE LEAGUE) that "It may take years" for the U. S. to thrash out the whole matter of World Court reservations by diplomatic notes among the interested powers...
...knowledge. . . . Cynics scented propaganda in the despatch, awaited more of the same from Sir Hari's highly paid and skillful British advisers. The late Maharaja, Sir Pratap Singh, has not been long in his grave (TIME, Oct. 5, MILESTONESQ, and the coronation of his nephew, Sir Hari (TIME, March 8), occurred so recently as to preclude $150,000 increase in the Kashmir forest revenues by any "Western" method- except an orgy of chopping...
...foot of the table. The tea business, a shareholder hinted, had far outgrown the ability of its founder. It needed, perhaps, a younger man - Sir John Ferguson, director of finance. Another share holder pointed out that the company's overdraft at the bank was ?10,000 in March. He would like to know what it was today...
There might have been speeches. There might have been tugboats swathed in flags and a police band playing Sousa's march and the Mayor standing in the bow waving the Keys of the City. There might have been all these delights and many more if, one hot day last February on the Riviera, she had drunk a glass of brandy when Mlle. Lenglen drank one, and if an attack of appendicitis had not forced her to occupy the Royal Box instead of Court No. 1 at the recent festivities at Wimbledon. For the exclamation of the Panama really punctuated...
...couples wedded by sea captains to the march of chill spume were displeased last week. An opinion handed down by Judge Chauncey G. Parker (Shipping Board General Counsel) stated simply and effectively that no Federal statute empowers captains to conduct marriage ceremonies. Captains were then ordered to quit marrying...