Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Docile, Mulai Yusef went with M. Steeg. Pressmen hovered. Many a female Charlestoned as though intent on spraining both her ankles. The Sultan's brow clouded in thought...
...Coronations do not come so very dear. Subtle ex-Tsar Ferdinand smiles in his beard. He answers no questions. Little Tsar Boris motors with abandon, hunts in picturesque attire, confides to pressmen that he loves birds, flowers, wolfhounds, but no woman-and witless rumors fly. Behind the iridescent screen of these puerilities, the old Tsar tweaks many a string, moves about Europe in welcome obscurity, continues to be a force which statesmen do not neglect to recognize...
With General da Costa under lock and key, General Carmona declared himself Dictator, Premier, and Minister of War. "I deposed General da Costa," he explained to pressmen, "because he conducted himself in a manner not only arbitrary but impolite...
...morganatic marriage are legitimate and the marriage, though it confers no rank upon the lesser party, is valid to the extent of precluding any other legal union while it exists. Individuals such as "Prince Louis de Bourbon," self-styled "brother of the King of Spain," often inform gullible pressmen that they are the result of a morganatic union, though another term would be more appropriate...
...statesman of international stature to stumble upon this domestic molehill? Dr. Benes, interviewed by pressmen, seemed disconcertingly cheerful...