Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sultry word-fencing by M. Briand with at least a dozen orators ensued before the question reached a vote. Fearful that the Deputies would never commit themselves to explicit ratification, the government did not put the issue squarely, as the final showdown came. Instead the Chamber was asked to pass a weasel-Jaw authorizing popular President Gaston ("Gastounet"') Domergue to perform the act of ratification by executive decree. Prior to seeking action on even this weasel-law the government allowed the deputies to vote a resolution expressing their conviction that no matter what engagements France may undertake she simply...
...with Deputy Dormann, pointed to the gleeful faces of the Opposition, told M. Dormann that he was being used as a parliamentary tool to overturn the government by creatures afraid to attack the government directly on the score of debt ratification. Deputy Dormann hesitated, cooled off, let the "crisis" pass...
...peerage who marries a peer murderer and runs away from him with a peer explorer is told partly in pictures but principally in words English, French, Hindu, Indian, Chinese. It is played by an orchestra, on reeds, on drums and a solo saxophone. It shows settings of the Khyber Pass, London, San Francisco, the Sudanese desert. It records the whirr of airplane propellers and another noise which sounds a good deal the same but is only camel-neighing. It contains love scenes, whiskey-drinking, and such lines as ''We are two dots in the loneliness" and "The night...
...laugh with his classical Operation Book but he showed us the practical side of humor by making an operation pay its way. . . . But if mine's not humorous, why, don't blame me. It's hard to be funny when you know the check will only pass through your hands...
...English Journalism." Editor Scott still talks of the time Woodrow Wilson traveled to Manchester to pay respects on his last visit to England. Not wealthy, he resides modestly in suburban Manchester, browses there among his books. Each day he bicycles to the office, waving to friends as they pass. On a homebound ride last week, after announcement of his resignation had been made, he carried in his pocket a message from his King, regretting his resignation, congratulating him on an achievement "which must surely be unique in the history of journalism...