Word: much
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hugo, however, whose head, though bloodied, remained unbowed. His capitulation, obviously forced, hinted at unspecified outside interests that had compelled the abandonment of a highly reasonable position. "Certain proposals, for which I have made myself responsible, . . . have become the subject of an acute controversy on a stage much wider than that of the company itself. . . . Proposals . . . made with the sole object of increasing the prosperity of the company . . . prompted by my view that the preponderating interests in our great industry should always be in British hands. ... I have always held the view that our scheme did not prejudice property rights...
...situation is far worse in Italy. There all the correspondents bootlick Prime Minister Mussolini or are thrown out. In Spain the censorship of Dictator Primo de Rivera is theoretically absolute, but the indolent Spanish temperament allows correspondents to smuggle out pretty much what they please...
...Englishmen have paid grumblingly since the middle of the 17th century, which American colonists refused to pay at their famed "Boston Tea Party." Throughout England last week the retail price of tea- which Britons drink at the rate of 10 Ib. each per annum-fell fourpence a pound (8?), much to the satisfaction of poor and thrifty citizens who would ordinarily vote Laborite. Perhaps some of them will now gratefully vote Conservative. Therefore the angry Labor pixie spat at Conservative Churchill that his latest opus was a "Brib-ery Budget!" After that-cripple or no cripple-it was Parliamentary...
...incess." "Lilybet's" mother, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, is herself only two removes from becoming "Queen Elizabeth"-which title is constantly and teasingly applied to her by Edward of Wales. She would be less than human if she did not sometimes wonder how much truth there is in the story that he once said he would renounce his rights upon the death of George V-which would make her nickname come true. If there is a woman in England who can remain unperturbed by the teasing of Edward of Wales it is certainly the fresh, buxom...
People have sailed, swum, flown, rowed, fought, argued their way across the English Channel (21 miles). If and when the much-bruited Channel tunnel (TIME, April 8) is built, people will be able to train-ride across or even walk. But only two men have ever pedalled across the Channel. Hydrocyclist Rene Savard,in 1927, crossed in 7 hrs. 13 min. and last week Raoul Vincent, pumping patiently at the pedals that made his paddles go, got across in "record" time...