Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"I want to take this occasion to say that the Governor of Alabama and the attorney general of Alabama feel very keenly about this matter; that we are most anxious that the outside world know that the Alabama State officials who are responsible in law for prosecuting cases of this...
"Her Majesty's condition is held to be serious, but not the occasion for immediate alarm. We have verified the former diagnosis and approved the present treatment." Whereupon the foreign specialists who were to receive as fees $1,250 each and expenses, departed.
The occasion in question did not call for a wisecrack of this nature. I did not make it and I do not doubt that many reading the remark attributed to me, will feel that I acted in a most unbecoming and undignified manner.
Cylindrical red fezzes on their heads, Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha of Egypt and nine other Egyptian delegates marched down the aisle of the League of Nations' new Geneva palace last week to bow stiffly before Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras, temporary President of the League Assembly...
The music included variations for mixed voices and orchestra, especially composed for the occasion by Dr.Serge Kousevitzky, Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.