Word: pour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King, shrewd madman, peoples his palaces in imagination with the grands seigneurs and ladies of France. "They make the best company," says Ludwig, "because they always go at the first hint from me." Banquets are given, to "the King of France." Ludwig presides, and bewildered Bavarian lackeys must pour out wine and serve viands to a dozen guests who are not there. King Ludwig jests gravely with the empty chair in which is supposed to sit Louis XVI. To Marie Antoinette the sly Ludwig pays less attention. He must not rouse the husband's suspicions ?clever Ludwig! She will...
...Harvard. Entering the Government Service amid days of emergency, he was later sent to Buenos Aires; and from there he originated the present system of monthly cable letters on economic conditions which now pour into Washington from U. S. Consuls everywhere...
Skim ten to twenty-eight feet of water off the surface of Lake Ontario. Pour it into the Mississippi River basin from Cairo, 111., to the Gulf. The resultant swamp will be a mild picture of the conditions which Spring-swollen rivers actually produced in the lower Mississippi valley last week...
...breakfast at No. 15 Dupont Circle, President Coolidge, Senator McNary of Oregon (coauthor of the vetoed McNary-Haugen farm relief bill) and sundry powers of the Republican party shook hands all around. "We will pour balm on the farmers' wounds. Senator McNary will go scouting in the West and report to the President next summer with a compromise bill that will satisfy agriculture and not vex industry. Congress will pass the bill next winter," said last week's breakfasters in effect. Such strategy was predicted three weeks ago (TIME, April...
...notwithstanding this new triumph of American industry, Reno hotel men cannot sit back too blandly and wait for the dollars to pour in. In Paris a lively bootlegging trade has begun by which a divaree may be secured in three weeks for as little as 1,000 dollars plus passage and wine costs'. Worst of all is the possibility that such men as Senator Borah may effect a renewal of relations with Russia, where divorce is only a matter of minutes, and does not even require proofs of dementia praecox, chronic alcoholism, or sadism. The Soviet might almost stabilize...