Word: plums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinguished than a passport and visa office. Thus, able men such as Mr. Kisner, trained in the consular service, can readily step up into ministerships and ambassadorships. Probably the great ambassadorships to the Court of St. James's, to France, to Germany, to Japan will always remain political plums, but at least Mr. Carr has injected the merit system into many another so-called plum...
...arts and one Benn W. Levy, advertised as a young Oxford graduate nursing his first play which proved a great success in London and is being tried on Boston as an acid test, bring in the cake. The confectionery is a veritable plum pudding, filled with excerpts from the works of all authorities on women beginning with Adam. Shopenhauer, and H.L.M., Bernard Shaw and Havelock Ellis, Freud and Elinor Glyn contribute each his plum...
Among his rewards were shooting the rapids of Ratisbon, lunching and gunning with Admiral Horthy at Budapest, tasting the fresh-distilled slivowitz (plum brandy) of Croatian and Magyar peasants waltzing in raw Bulgaria, watching out for the merry brigands of swampy Rumania. Though his name sounds like the handwriting oh the wall, Traveler Farson is a cheery, seaworthy person and a first-rate reporter. He saw a great deal that was significent as well as colorful and tells it very well...
...University could take no sweeping action against the townspeople, it severely curbed the carnival aspirations of the students themselves, who probably contributed in no small measure to the cup of revelry. In 1722 there was a law prohibiting the students from preparing or providing either plum cake, or roasted, baked, or boiled meats, or pies of any kind, and from furnishing distilled liquors or any Composition made therewith upon pain of being fined 20 shillings, and the forfeiture of the provisions and liquors, to be seized by the tutors." Evidently distilled liquors, or any Composition made therewith, were not considered...
Under this formula the Assembly can salve the wounded pride of Spain by awarding to that country one of the new re-electable or semi-permanent seats. Brazil who has served notice of withdrawal from the League (TIME, June 21) may be tempted back by a similar plum. Poland will assumedly not be forgotten, as the dependent ally of potent France. The Assembly, which convened at Geneva last week, is thus provided with three tempting prizes to grant or withhold for good behavior among the nations...