Word: member
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youngest member of Congress is George Hamilton Combs Jr., a minister's son from Missouri. Now aged 29, he represents the 367,846 inhabitants of Jackson County. He is a Democrat. Last week he arose in the House to make one of his infrequent speeches. It was a speech addressed to his fellow Democrats, whom he flayed roundly for their post-election faultfinding with National Democratic Chairman John J. Raskob...
Since the U. S. is not a League member state, there next arose the delicate question of how Aristide Briand might properly convey the good news from Bolivia to Frank Billings Kellogg. As French Foreign Minister, M. Briand could have addressed Mr. Kellogg in his capacity of Secretary of State; but as chairman of the League Council, M. Briand could not so address...
Authoress Radclyffe Hall has said: "I have studied abnormal psychology for 13 years, as a member of the Council for the Society for Psychical Research, and as a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society. Those who read my book need not be told that there is nothing salacious in it, and that it is written very gravely and without offense. . . . When I speak of female inverts I do not mean perverts. . . . Many times the invert is a great artist, highly sensitive and intelligent. She would contribute much to society if she were not despised and abused...
...know that he has long been the only one of Benito Mussolini's ministers from whom harassed King Vittorio Emanuele III has always been able to secure a countersignature for his royal acts. Constitutionally the pen scratch of His Majesty is of no effect, unless countersigned by a member of the Government. Therefore when Signor Federzoni's ministry was snatched away, last week, the King was popped even deeper down into the depths of Benito Mussolini's ogreish pocket...
...followed in slow procession, the first, Dowager Empress Marie, to be greeted with huzzahs of adoration; and the second, Alexandra, with a sudden silence, variously interpreted. Baroness Buxhoeveden, friend and lady-in-waiting to the last empress, says the crowds were struck dumb with holy awe. But Princess Radziwill, member of the St. Petersburg aristocracy Alexandra failed to please, calls the dumbness "a solemn, ominous silence . . . majestic absence of emotion on the part of the multitude...