Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing led to another until last week found Lady Strabolgi, a Mr. R. H. M. Muller, her friend and neighbor, and Landlady Hanner all in court. It was charged that Lady Strabolgi and Neighbor Muller had, "to wit?struck, thrown about and kicked'' not only Mrs. Hanner, but also her daughter Joyce, who had gone to her mother's rescue with a bread knife...
Dignified Neighbor Muller added his denial of the assault. "When I tried to usher Mrs. Hanner out of the Baroness Strabolgi's apartment." said he, "Mrs. Hanner sat down upon the floor...
Secretary of State Stimson last week found his desk strewn with vexatious matters appertaining to that troublesome, vermiform little neighbor, Cuba. As President Hoover's foreign minister, Statesman Stimson had to keep abreast of Cuba's internal disorders, of which several were stirring last week. Complaints centred chiefly about President Gerardo Machado...
...Chamberlain was present and rather more than close to tears. He has said frankly in the past that he loves France "as a man loves a woman." "Mr. Snowden has used a most offensive term!" cried anguished Sir Austen. "A most offensive term about a friendly nation - our nearest neighbor - describing them as 'bilkers!' An offensive slang term from the gutter! ... I say deliberately that no worse day's work has been done in any Parliament! Nor any greater harm!" Sir Austen seemed actually beside himself with grief and shame. "Bilkers!" his French friends had been called...
...hydro-electric power. Canada fears that the U. S. will secure control of most of the St. Lawrence power sites, with no chance for Canada to increase its share to meet future needs. Said one Canadian newspaper: "What Uncle Sam has he holds. Our whole relationship with our big neighbor proves that truism." Radio. "Sheer presumption," declared Arthur 0. Smith, Canadian speaker to a Washington Rotary Club last week, was the U. S. Radio Commission's assignment of a mere handful of radio wavelengths to Canada. The prediction was made that the Canadian Government would soon kick over...