Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long. At 6:30 a. m. next morning the Deputies out, after having literally hashed all the measures presented to them into such a jumble that the greatest fiscal experts in France disagreed by hundreds of thousands of francs as to what revenue the resulting bill would produce. None the less, the Deputies passed it and gave Premier Briand a vote of confidence, 258 to 145?i.e., with over 100 abstentions, enough to have overthrown the Premier if even half the abstentees had voted against him. Finally, the Chamber voted itself a much needed recess...
...openly, visited his former wife, was so cruel that she threatened kill herself. Her people and her nobles united against her; she fled Edinburgh with Bothwell. With Mary beside him, his forces and the enemy ultimately came face to face at Carberry Hill. She could make terms for herself, none for him. Bothwell's outnumbered troops wavered and muttered. He waited no longer; with a hasty word to her he mounted and fled, to die an exile, in prison...
...only beautiful thing in that village of drying fish and stuffy sitting rooms? But the centre of gravity is, as always, Trader Mack. The return of his tall, erotic daughter from Denmark, the brilliant suicide of Rosa's first husband, the burial of his great featherbed bath-tub? none of these shakes the hold of Mack, the strong silent man, over the fumblers about him. Honest British...
...writer and reader alike, allegorical writing is impossible. Allegory is the only class of writing in which the imitation of outworn literary styles can justify imposing itself upon the readers' attention. There ought to be, in the Advocate articles on Merlin and on the Dragon, a neatly concealed but none the less obvious reference to some Harvard problem or situation in which everyone hereabouts is interested. Mr. Demos does this in a more direct way, in his comparison between science, art, and philosophy, wherein perchance he proves too much for his own chosen partisans. Perhaps his subtlety goes...
...Democratic Party shall "refuse to make any alliance with radical forces." Senator Bruce of Maryland concurs with him that the confidence of legitimate business must not be sacrificed through compromise with the "creak-brain economic vagaries of Bryan west". On the other hand, Senator King of Utah, conservative but none the less western, reminds his party that they must provide "a wise farm policy". Further in this direction, Representative Howard, significantly from Nebraska, stresses the necessity of an out-and-out liberalism with particular reference to "the agricultural zone". He goes on to commit himself to an agrarian platform...