Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gesturing again, the silent Clerk pointed to a Conservative M. P., Sir Robert Sanders, who promptly nominated for the Speakership another Conservative, Captain the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, son of Baron Southampton, and onetime Page of Honor to Queen Victoria.
Entered pompously, in this traditional emergency, Sir Thomas Lonsdale Webster, Clerk of the House. Gesturing in dumb show, he pointed to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who then had leave to say that His Majesty would graciously permit his Faithful Commons to choose a new Speaker.
¶. The work of Hearst in stirring up the Spanish-American War needs no reiteration. After the war, Hearst's Journal bitterly attacked President McKinley; one editorial said: "If bad institutions and bad men can be got rid of only by killing, then killing must be done." When President...
Answering the porters' protest, the Pullman Co. stated that $72.50 was the wage paid newly employed men. Oldtimers' wages are as high as $104 a month. In the company's judgment, tips run from $75 per month up. The company believed $33 a high figure for "on...
Last week the celebration of French Mothers' Day climaxed at Paris when the City Council bestowed 80 medals upon ladies from whom ten or more offspring have been begotten. French Royalists pointed pridefully to three titled medal winners: the Countesses Caruyer de Beauvais, Fremy-Elphege and Le Lasseur.