Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connect up rail linkage between India and Europe would be simply to extend across Afghanistan the lines which already come up from India and down from Russia to the very borders of King Amanullah's realm. Although funds for such a project are not immediately in prospect, His Majesty arranged while in Berlin to have two German engineering firms make preliminary surveys of these routes...
...return to town for a spring of gayeties. The yearly exhibition of paintings at the Royal Academy opens the season. To the Academy's doors came last week lords and ladies, all the best people who live in London, eager to see the pictures and excited at the prospect of saying how-do-you-do to friends they had not seen since the autumn shooting in Scotland. Mrs. Winston Churchill, with three Anglo-Indian ladies, Painter Sir John Lavery with his lady, Margot Asquith, an enormous smile twitching under her hawk nose, Premier Baldwin, in a topper, Ishbel Macdonald...
...national journal of society," read last week that "Senator Joe Robinson has been suffering that undignified disease . . . and Senator Hiram Johnson of California has the mumps too." These two gentlemen sit well apart in the Senate Chamber, on opposite sides of the aisle. Mumps being most contagious, there was prospect of more mumps among the Senators. Near California's white-crested Johnson sit Indiana's paunchy Watson and Michigan's comfortable Couzens, in either of whom a case of mumps would wreak a startling transformation. Senator Taylor Robinson is the Democratic leader and he might have transmitted...
...increasing prospect of any man's nomination distorts his image in the public eye. In the case of Candidate Smith, his enemies see him more and more as a subtle knave of Rum and Romanism wearing the stripes of Tammany. His friends, in turn, are prone to exalt him as a Galahad of the masses, dight in spotless, and stripeless, armor. Actually, of course, he is simply a 54-year-old up-from-the-bottom man whose profession has been politics, whose acquired technique is state-government, whose ambition is what he calls "the highest office in the world...
Naturally the climax of Correspondent James' dash to Rome came when he was ushered into the enormous, high ceilinged office of Signor Mussolini in the Palazzo Chigi. Soon Il Duce consented to discuss a subject at which most men shy, the prospect of his own death. Said he: "I am here today and gone tomorrow; but let no one think Fascism goes with me. . . . I do not know how long Mussolini will last, but Fascism shall last longer. ... I will leave to Italy the institution of Fascism established on solid grounds-an historic institution. . . . The youth of Italy shall...