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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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''Never put off until tomorrow what you can just as well put off until next week"- such was the Irish motto cheerfully followed by Scot James Ramsay MacDonald on his return last week to Britain.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Good Old Mac! | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

The House of Commons had assembled from Autumn recess in advance of his arrival (see below) eager to hear his official version of the White House talks. But the Prime Minister decided to slip off for a few days to "Chequers," country residence of British prime ministers. Rumor was that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Good Old Mac! | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Distinction: "To me the most important distinction between American and British women is the practice many American married women have of working outside their homes. ... In the United States the viewpoint seems to be: 'I'll go out and earn some money if my husband and I cannot afford to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ishbel's Thoughts | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

With Nova Scotia gone Wet, Ontario confirmed in wetness, the little province of Prince Edward Island with a population less than Yonkers, N. Y., is the only part of Canada which has not cast off prohibition. U. S. Wets could not forbear to gloat last week. Cried President Henry H...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Wet & Wetter | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Born at Paris just 53 years ago, André Tardieu had a common public schooling, developed an uncommon flair for political journalism, and at only 23 became Chef de Cabinet (chief political secretary) to the late, great Prime Minister Waldeck-Rousseau. Next he leaped to foreign editorship of Le Temps, foremost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tardieu Cabinet | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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