Word: prob
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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International Security. "The problem of the League of Nations is the prob-lem of Security," began Messiah MacDonald quietly. Recalling that during his short previous term as Prime Minister in 1924 he sought to secure the peace of Europe by championing the Geneva Protocol (intended to "put teeth into the Covenant of the League"), he declared that "since 1924 we have started upon another road. The [Kellogg-Briand] Pact of Peace has been signed at Paris, and that pact is now the starting point of further work. ... To a certain extent the pact is still a castle...
...marry he deserts penniless. But in New York he is publicized the way the public likes its champions: "Just a kid; that's all he is; a regular boy. . . . Don't know the meanin' o' bad habits. Never tasted liquor in his life and would prob'bly get sick if he smelled it. Clean livin' put him up where...
...snorting and kicking up dust with a maximum of noise and a minimum of grace. They were called "automobiles" and Oelwein's farmers agreed contemptuously with turn-of-the-century cartoonists that the only difference between an automobilist and a dum-fool was that the dumfool was prob'ly born that way and couldn't help it. Engineer Chrysler gave little thought to Oelwein's farmers and automobilists but he went to the Chicago automobile show of 1905* and stood entranced in front of a beauteous white thingamajig with four doors, a bulbous horn...
...Pickwick. He once used to roll under and from under beds in the parlor- bedroom-and-bath era of U. S. farce, complaining bitterly to his friends of the sad condition of the theatre that necessitated such ig- noble dramaturgy. He now has a more congenial role, but not, prob- ably, for long. Though cartoons of Dickens's narrative have been faith- fully staged, theatre-goers will find themselves bored by what is, after all, only the Pickwick tabloid Papers...
Other action undertaken by the Council last night consisted of the recommendation that polo be recognized as a minor sport; the announcement that the Register will appear this year during the week of the Yale game; and the appointment of committees to study such prob- lems as that of planning a budget to meet drives for all funds raised in the University, considering the matter of class colors, and investigating the parking situation...