Word: nay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After weeks of standing on street corners and long periods of being marooned in the center of a passing stream of automobiles. The Vagabond determined to revolt against the traffic system which so formidably threatens his career, nay his very existence. Unfortunately a call on Mayor Quinn was discouraged by the presence of two large police dogs. There was nothing left for the traveling scholar to do but gather the necessary data and prove to his readers that automobiles in Harvard Square are a menace to all true students--a danger to life and a waster of time at street...
...Judas! His treachery is too repulsive to deserve mercy. Nay, worse than a Judas, he is not repentant! He did not follow Judas' example in committing suicide...
Lastly the Queen spoke with emotion, nay indignation, of Curacao-not the liqueur but the island where it was invented, one of Her Majesty's islands in the Caribbean. Recalling that Curacao is but 40 miles from the coast of Venezuela and that the Governor General of Cu-null was kidnapped by Venezuelan filibusterers last spring and subjected to indignities before being released (TIME, June 24), Queen Wilhelmina said with resolute wrath: "It is the purpose of my government to increase the number of our armed forces in Curacao!" At present the garrison of Willemstad, the Capital, consists...
...small roly-poly porpoise sporting pompously in a pool would not be happier than was Egypt's plump, glistening little King Fuad in London last week. For four years His Majesty and his ministers on the Nile have been dictated to, nay openly bullied, by the British High Commissioner to Egypt, sleek, superior Baron George Ambrose Lloyd of Dolobran. Last week, in humiliating circumstances, the High Commissioner was forced to resign by his own Government, which at first withheld public explanation. In the House of Commons a teapot typhoon of invective rose...
...Instead the attraction of abnormally high money rates in Manhattan and other foreign capitals operated to deplete seriously the Reichsbank's gold reserve. The only possible counter-move was to raise the rate last week, and in Manhattan it had been anticipated for some weeks that Dr. Schacht would, nay must, take this step.* In Paris, however, angry editors rose above common sense, charged that the lowering of the rate last January was a "plot," even charged that the "Iron Man" would rather see the mark crash down to infinitesimal value a second time?thus bankrupting the Fatherland?than agree...