Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edouard Herriot, disgruntled incumbent of the Ministry of Education, fallen leader of the Coalition of Left Parties, and previously twice Prime Minister, to Cologne, Germany, where he grew still more peevish from tramping past exhibits at the International Press Fair...
...entirely a happy occasion." Rostron also lamented the Mauretania, his former command. Three German-built liners are now flagships for three steamship lines flying colors that fought Germany ten years ago: The Leviathan (Vaterland) United States Line; the Majestic (Bismarck)-White Star line; the Berengaria (Imperator)-Cunard Line. The past week saw all three simultaneously present in New York harbor...
...have reported that these four-foot folk not only claim to be descended from monkeys, but state that they know they are, because the Congo Monkeys still occasionally live with them. . . . Their Belgian Majesties of course avoided the terrors and obscenities of the Pigmy Forest, last week, merely sailing past its extremity in a prim Congo steamer. Near Stanleyville the "Seven Cataracts of the Congo" or "Stanley Falls" halted the royal steamer, and King & Queen were obliged to motor around the Cataracts. Before proceeding downstream to the Atlantic (1,500 miles) King Albert received the homage of several onetime cannibal...
...compel the Chinese Nationalists to reconsider, the Mikado's Government took four drastic steps. First, it refused to take diplomatic cognizance of the Chinese note. Second it stated its determination to consider that the Sino-Japanese treaty continues in force (although the expiration date is two years past) by virtue of an ambiguous automatic renewal clause. Third, it succeeded in breaking off an arrangement whereby the young Dictator of Manchuria, Chang Hsueh-liang, had agreed, last week to place himself in subordinate alliance with the Nationalists. Lastly, Chang was not only compelled by the Japanese to break his agreement...
...till now has it had an adequate story or poem of the Civil War (aside from Walt Whitman's Lincoln). Yet, the Civil War surpasses in colorful drama any other episode in U. S. history, and Poet Benet proves it so. Delving into that not quite forgotten past, he reproduces atmosphere and currents of passion. Through 377 pages of close-packed verse, his rhythm is pompous for matters of state, simple for poignant stories of lovers and "Hiders" and deserters, cadenced for darky