Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government was forced to accept the view of Senator Guilloteaux before it could obtain ratification: "So far as the Senate is concerned, we will not admit that the limitation on capital ships shall be imposed upon the auxiliary fleet, and we consider the Washington Treaty only temporary, to be extended only by tacit mutual consent. Moreover, we will not permit our country to be deprived, in any circumstances, of submarines, which are indispensable to our defense...
Mary Lewis, until recently prima donna of the Follies, will take leading roles in the Monte Carlo Opera Company's productions from January to April. Miss Lewis, who is 23, sang in a choir and gave music lessons in Little Rock, Ark., her birthplace, to obtain money to take her to New York. There, in 1920, she entered the chorus of the 'Greenwich Village Follies, was given the prima donna role after three weeks, appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies the next two years...
President Barrows, formerly President of the University of California, told the Association of American Universities that success in student activities was one of the best criteria of fitness. He said: " I have followed for about ten years now the course of men who obtain prominent positions in what we sometimes derisively call students' activities.' Almost without exception those men are not only successful in their business of life, but in almost every case they are influential and important men in the communities in which they live." The gentleman who, under the name of Quadwrangler, writes educational gossip...
...peasants and clergy are behind the old order of things in the patriarchate. They have a strong point of canon law in their favor in the fact that no patriarch can be deposed without the written consent of his peer. This written consent the radicals failed to obtain from Tikhon's peer, Meletios Metataxis, Patriarch of Constantinople, and from him the quasi Patriarch of Moscow is now said to be seeking aid and comfort. But the Most Rev. Metataxis is himself in trouble, owing to the Turks, and to those Greeks who wish to see a rapid peace...
...Hornet, published monthly at Mocksville, N. C., sells for 35 cents a year, $1.00 for four years. For this modest price its readers obtain monthly four pages of print that comprise the "Hottest Democratic Paper in the United States...