Word: qui
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greed." As doyen of the Corps Diplomatique, the Spanish Ambassador Count José Maria Quiñones de Leon delivered himself of an ornate bouquet of phrases into one of which he startlingly introduced the wasp word "greed...
...Herrick," purred Count Quiñones, "like other great statesmen who refused to subscribe to that deep-rooted greed which makes duplicity and deceit the best weapons of diplomacy, never employed any other resources than those which translated his most intimate sentiments, namely, sincere affability, loyal frankness and perfect cordiality...
Many thanks for the numerous informations received by reading your splendid publication. Certainly: qui habet tempus habet vitam...
...Minnesota, in the county of Lac qui Parle, in the township of Lac qui Parle, was born, 45 years ago, Theodore Christiansen. He has twice been elected Governor of his native state, in whose university he achieved Phi Beta Kappa, before whose bar he made a reputation, and at whose public banquets he became famed as a defender of Babbitts from the attacks of Minnesota's Sinclair Lewis. Last week he was re-elected for a third term on a record of economy and efficiency...
...Congoland was their objective-namely the city of Elizabethville, which lies 900 miles inland, at the very toe and tip of the Belgian Congo, just where it touches Great Britain's colony of Northern Rhodesia (so named after its exploiter, Cecil John Rhodes). Between Elizabethville and Port Franc-qui (named after the rehabilitator of Belgium's currency, former Finance Minister Emile Francqui) lie the Katanga Mountains, rich in copper, and over them runs a 660 mile long railway which King & Queen proceeded to inaugurate. Local copper executives dolefully informed His Majesty that their Blackamoor miners have tribally combined...