Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formally with China. II. The Government wishes to renew the Anglo-Chinese treaties "on an equitable basis." III. The Government will introduce during the present Parliamentary session two notable bills: 1) an act to defend British cinema makers against foreign (U. S.) competition; 2) a law limiting the right of British workingmen to strike...
...recent mothers blinked sleepy, startled eyes. Then they huddled bed clothes around themselves, sat up and simpered at Edward of Wales. He, restless, hurried on to visit half a dozen East End dives. At one a sailor, elated with rum, seized Edward's not very strong right hand and pumped it for minutes-shouting "Hold on Prince!" whenever His Royal Highness tried to draw away. At last an equerry hit the fellow a shrewd tap, rescued Edward...
...with flattery..... The farseeing painter will see that the shades of hair, face and eyes comply with the subject's desires, whether they match the actualities or not. . . . Everything has to be subordinated to the lips and the hue of the face powder. If we get those two right, the rest is easy. ... If I have any difficulty with the eyes, I generally paint them almost blue. One can never go wrong with blue...
...drear London twilight last week the old Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, Primate of All England, slowly paraded into Church House at Westminister.† With him was the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Anglican Archbishop of York and Primate of England; and behind them entered 300 high dignitaries of their Church of England, gay in vestment, sombre in feature...
...Poplar Bluffs, Mo., one Ellis Haiden, tough-palated, raked cockleburs off his mittens with his teeth. One cocklebur, three-fourths of an inch long, skidded along his tongue, down his throat; lodged in his right lung. St. Louis doctors got the bur out with a bronchoscope...