Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last May stolid Britishers were shocked one morning to hear that Peter Pan had been tarred and feathered. They remembered the pronouncements of Epstein partisans...
...theatre has been enlarged to seat 6,000 people. Tourists may come by plane; an airdrome will be ready for the solemn scenes in May...
...accept the [Kellogg-Briand] Peace Pact not only as a declaration of good intentions, but as a positive obligation. . . . Therefore, in a new and reinforced sense the two governments not only declare that war between them is unthinkable, but that distrusts and suspicions arising from doubts and fears which may have been justified before the Peace Pact must now cease to influence national policy...
Sometimes a President may prudently say what he dare not write and publish. Last week tall, patriarchal President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, potent Father of His Country (founded Oct. 18, 1918 when Czechoslovakia was recognized by the Allies), spoke privily and at length to a Hungarian of utmost probity, Dr. Franz Rajniss, chief of the Social Institute at Budapest. Returning home in high excitement Dr. Rajniss declared that President Masaryk had outlined to him a series of remarkable proposals for settling the acute Hungarian minorities question which arose when Czechoslovakia received after the War some 14,000 square miles of territory...
...first secretary of Afghanistan's Paris Legation was asked by U. S. correspondents what he thought were the intentions of Nadir. "To you gentlemen," he replied, "I may best characterize the Nadir Khan a sort of George Washington. There is the interesting possibility, that like your great countryman, he may prefer to experiment with some sort of a republic...