Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alleged military agreement is a lie and an audacious falsehood! It was the work of a criminal!" A similar disclaimer was soon issued by French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. None the less the responsible Dutch press of Rotterdam, Amsterdam and The Hague continued to display alarm. The extreme view was taken by Amsterdam's potent Socialist daily Volk. After graphically prophesying the "Violation of Limburg" by English troops, its editor sarcastically observed: "And this is the same England which in 1914 declared war because of the violation of Belgium's neutrality...
...Laurac was divorced and in the War he died. Helma came to the U. S. to the Metropolitan Opera Company. There critics thought her a little cold but her prestige grew as it had in Europe. Her sole defeat was a trip to Mexico City under none other than Impresario Gonsalvo. She had been tempted by the offer of the highest fee ever paid a woman singer. But she offended the politician-backer, sang badly and had to be hustled out of the city to save her skin. The experience shook her confidence, ruined Gonsalvo. For Gonsalvo she magnanimously provided...
Invisible intelligencers spread the news in the great ant hill. Squads of ant firemen advanced into the tunnel, attacked the flames, carried out smoke-blackened passengers. Many were injured, none killed. Scores of ant officials with ant authority hurried to investigate...
...often judgments based on such opportunism prevail among statesmen, but England has still her champions of morality. Whate'er betide, none will be found stauncher than two famed scions of the historic House of Cecil. The elder of these two brothers, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, winner of the Woodrow Wilson $25,000 Peace Award (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924), resigned as British delegate to the League of Nations when he came to feel that the Empire was not fulfilling its whole moral duty to the League...
Poems were read by Poets Cale Young Rice (Stygian Freight), Clinton Scollard (Epic of Golf, Songs of Summer), Willard Austin Wattles (The Funston Double Track), Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (wife of Clinton Scollard [The Lifted Cup]). None of the reading poets were Rollins alumni...