Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scarcely any one in England would think of calling Mrs. Stanley Baldwin "Lucy,"' except of course her husband, the Prime Minister. Even the smart friends of Miss Betty Baldwin, including some of London's most notorious titled set, would never refer to a "church" in her mother's presence as a "Godbox."* Therefore it was quite "in character" for Mrs. Baldwin to go, last week, to a quite old-fashioned little church bazaar...
...guess," she smiled, "I could never guess their names in the wide world. I'm not clever at guessing," and the Prime Minister's wife passed...
Commentators recalled that the Prime Minister's pious wife has said that she sees in his rise to Power the inscrutable working of "Divine Providence...
...Thus President Thomas Woodrow Wilson did not know whether or not he was negotiating at Paris a treaty which would be approved by Congress. But in France it is otherwise. There, Parliament can be asked to register approval or disapproval in advance. With intent to ask such a question, Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, renowned "Lion of Lorraine," went solemnly last week before the Chamber of Deputies...
...propose to overthrow my Cabinet, mes amis," cried the Prime Minister, "do so now! A crisis today would have serious but reparable consequences. A crisis once the negotiations have begun would be a mortal blow to France...