Word: mens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have spoken in my time at a number of public dinners and have proposed toasts on almost every subject under the sun. Tonight I speak with considerable embarrassment. ... It is not our national habit to invite men to dine to tell them how brave they...
...such positive, commanding words Deputies of the Right pricked up their ears. The whole Chamber began to sense that here was another Strong Man, like the men who are his backers, Poincare and Clemenceau, both too old and sick to take the helm. With sound strategy, M. Tardieu shifted from foreign affairs to a masterful address on internal agrarian and financial policy. That turned the scale. For years M. Tardieu has been called Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), designated to succession by the fiscal genius who saved and stabilized the franc, M. Raymond Poincare (TIME, Jan. 3. 1927). Last week...
...Santa Maria were streaked with wrinkled beds of steaming lava, moving in ponderous streams toward the sea. In the midst of the lava stream a little hill made an island of refuge. On it huddled a group of the same peons who had waved to him three days earlier, men, women, children. They were completely marooned. Inch by inch the lava stream crept higher. There was no possible escape. Even in the plane the heat was almost unbearable...
...draughtsman; Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair); Director Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. On the walls were hung 98 canvases by the four "old masters" of modern painting: Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh. Many a guest at the opening could well remember the time when these men were not even subjects for polite conversation. There had been unwholesome tales of Gauguin, the stockbroker who deserted wife and child for the allures of Tahiti; Cezanne, the vitriolic rebel of the '90s; Van Gogh, the lunatic. They had been accused of "war madness" and of corruption. But such...
...more than any fifty men, is responsible for this stock crash," wrote Senator Carter Glass of Virginia last week to the Philadelphia Record. He?Charles Edwin Mitchell, head of National City-Bank?made no reply. Hostility of Senator Glass was an old story; besides, Mr. Mitchell had serious troubles to cope with. The still ominous market; the cancelled Corn Exchange merger; the rumored differences with his directors?Mr. Mitchell's position was carrying hazards with its honors...