Word: questionably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Faces were thus saved temporarily, but in London last week it was freely predicted that should George V remain invalid, an Imperial Conference will have to be called to settle the Crown Council Question beyond possibility of Irish cavil. Early in the week, several of the 22 subjects designated Knights in the delayed New Year's honors list tingled at the thought of kneeling in silk breeches to be dubbed (smacked between the shoulder blades) by the naked sword of Edward of Wales acting for George V. These ceremonies were postponed to allow the Prince to represent King George...
...Foch. "However highly President von Hindenburg may esteem Foch as a military man, the German people simply would not understand why he should pay tribute to the man who at Compiegne so deeply humiliated the German Armistice Commission. It is not his qualities of a soldier that we question but the manner in which he 'rubbed in' his authority...
Ghouls or a pressagent? That was the question that newspaper editors had to ask themselves as they read despatches last week describing the theft of the body of Floyd Collins. The corpse had been on exhibition in a bronze and glass coffin in Crystal Cave, Ky., some seven miles from Sand Cave, where Collins died in 1925 after a 17-day effort to dig him out alive. Crystal Cave is owned by a Dr. Harry Thomas of Horse Cave. Ky. The admission price to see Floyd Collins...
...question of whether man shall ever be able to reproduce living light, which is at least twice as efficient as best artificial light, becomes the question whether chemists will ever be able to synthesize the protein luciferin. Dr. Harvey thought that "that will come in the future. We now synthesize fats, sugars, and some of the polypetides." Luciferin seems to be either a peptone or a proteose...
Mausoleums. The traditional "bad man," asked the conventional question of where he buries his dead, may soon reply, "At Tompkinsville, Staten Island, in the 6,000 mausoleums of Mausoleum Corp. of America." On the site is room for 4,000 additional crypts. Mausoleum Corp. stock is being marketed at $106 a unit (4 Class A, 1 Class B share), is held chiefly by organizers...