Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earl Birkenhead. "Every member of this House knows that not one of the peeresses proposed for admission would be nominated by any competent tribunal to any legislative body at all. . . . Some of these ladies were made peeresses because otherwise there was no prospect of a male heir. Many of them have proved disappointing even from that standpoint. . . . The entire method of constituting the House of Lords ought to be changed, and when that is done women ought to be selected from the whole population of the country...
Footloose Widows (Jacqueline Logan, Louise Fazenda). One of the million methods of winning a husband is examined in this comedy. Two lonely females pretend they are married, seeking behind this pretense men with millions. To their dismay the principal prospect turns out to be a fifty-cent tailor. Later they locate their fated loves. Miss Logan, always one of the loveliest of stars and Miss Fazenda, returning to her frantic low comedy methods of the early days, performed pleasantly...
...Herriot declared his unwillingness to serve beneath his confrere. M. Briand saw open before him the prospect of continuing indefinitely his struggles of many months to juggle a majority out of fluid and irresponsible Chamber blocs. In effect Aristide Briand threw up his hands, cried: "I am through! Let Herriot see what...
Britons faced with resolution the prospect of what would have seemed a great industrial war had not the stupendous "general strike" preceded it and been safely weathered...
...regular flying officer detailed, with special equipment, to assist Professor Alexander Klemin, the head of the school, and train the graduates to eligibility for commissions in the Flying Corps of the Officers' Reserve. Last June the Guggenheim School graduated nine men. This year it enrolls 15. The prospect of practical experience at Government fields is expected to multiply the enrollment by leaps and bounds. Attention turned to four other universities to see how soon they would obtain, or the War Department offer, similar official units to complement their schools of aviation -Georgia Tech and the Universities of California. Illinois...