Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jitney Players. If you spend your summers in New England you may possibly have seen a troupe of mummers trundle into town of a hot summer's night, in motor trucks, unpack their scenery and their costumes and set up a show shop on a tennis court or a golf course. The Jitney Players have been touring in that fashion for six years...
Cripple Snowden. swaying on his crutches, pointed out that Spinster Mason's charges might have imperiled his chances of being returned to the House of Commons at the General Election of May 30 next (see below). A detective testified that Miss Mason had said to him before she was arrested, "There's no mistake. There's only one Snowden in the Commons, and only one lame Snowden...
...troubled seemed Britain's political complexion that many looked for reassurance upon the face and symbol of Edward of Wales. Wildest Irishmen like him. He has just cemented his popularity with all classes−especially the lower−by what may yet grow to seem an epochal tour of the British Coal Fields (TIME, Feb. 1), where millions are jobless, well nigh starving, and might conceivably have turned against the Crown. With two gestures of convincing sincerity Edward of Wales did much to forestall that. The first gesture was his report on the unemployment situation, which he denounced...
...absent by reason of Death, he will issue a writ for the holding of a by-election to fill the vacant seat. Last week five such by-elections were held, although the five M.P.'s elected will hold their seats for less than two months, namely until May 10, when Parliament will be dissolved for a General Election. Therefore when two more M. P.'s suddenly died, the party chieftains got together, last week, and agreed that nobody would call the attention of "Mr. Speaker" to these two particular empty seats...
Last week for the first time in half a decade people talked breathlessly of the chance that David Lloyd George may "come back." Certainly the odds show that he may quite reasonably expect to hold a balance of power between Laborites and Conservatives. None knows how to exploit such a situation better than the little Welsh attorney; the only major politician who has had stamina enough really to survive the war. Last week his energy and fire easily surpassed that of any rival; and both Laborites and Conservatives were in deadly fear lest...