Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extremely confidential. All were warned against tattling, and their husbands were facetiously held up to them as bad examples. The meeting over, they trooped out and explained politely to newsgatherers that they had been transacting "executive" business-and that, besides, the election of a club president had been post-poned a year...
Protocol signed. Under these pleasant auspices the Rumanian Minister to Poland, Carol A. Davila, sped post haste to Moscow (where he found thermometers at 22 degrees below zero) and announced himself ready to sign the Litvinov protocol. After a little diplomatic jockeying the delegates assembled at the Soviet Foreign Office, and sat down around a table draped in dark magenta-not red. Three movie arc-lights sputtered, seven cameras whirred. Then came a puzzling interlude...
Atrocity. One savage interlude, typical of at least a score, will be described. A British sentry, Private Hopkins, was standing rigid and immobile at his post of duty, when a Pathan mob suddenly appeared, whooping in full cry after a Hindu. To have interfered would have been suicide. Private Hopkins stood as quiet as a lamp post. Before his eyes the Hindu was caught, pinioned, kicked, slashed horribly, and finally disemboweled. This fiendish atrocity was too much for a Soldier of the King to bear. Private Hopkins, according to English correspondents, fainted...
Died. Henry Belasco, San Francisco Post Office worker, brother of famed Producer David Belasco; in San Francisco. During his ascendancy, Brother David gave Brother Henry the post of doorkeeper at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco. Brother Henry held the post for 25 years...
Competition for the post will run for two weeks, up until the indoor I. C. A. A. A. A. meet on March 2. It will then be discontinued for six weeks and will be resumed again on April 15, and run for a period of four more weeks...