Word: parley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge decided to try again for a naval disarmament parley similar to the unfruitful Geneva Conference initiated by him last year? He had not. But so thought many a reader who depends upon the Times to say what it means without levity...
...East, the conversations, held in the foothills of the Atlas mountains, begun by long and polite exchanges. Even then the point could not be broached directly. A long, a very long list of topics must be discussed before the word "ransom" could be even mentioned by inuendo. Thus the parley went on for some days...
Eventually he was persuaded to ask for 1,500,000 francs (about $60,000), but he refused to be drawn out about the food supply and the manufactured goods. The French Emissary said that he could not pay so much and the parley was adjourned until the Sheik could talk over the negotations with his chief...
...preaching the doctrines of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. ... I am standing now for what the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence stood for. What was good enough for them is good enough for me!" Specifically, and divested of glamor, that means: 1) No Geneva parley or League of Nations entanglement; 2) flood relief; 3) inland waterways; 4) farm relief. Mayor Thompson wants the West to know that his championship will go to the man who, red-blooded and foursquare, stands upon such a platform as candidate for the Presidency of the U. S. Some...
...regard to paring down the French debt. An official protest was lodged by the U. S. through the Paris Embassy. The French promised to consider the matter. Busy businessmen doubted that anything would be done; that France would ever give up such a good advantage in the prospective commercial parley...