Word: ronalds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Book Flung across House of Commons!", "Wild Ulsterite Attacks Winston Churchill!" Such were the sensational headlines in which Mr. Ronald McNeill, an Irish-Barrister-M.P., achieved notoriety in 1914. Differing with the genial "Winnie" Churchill over the momentous Ulster border question, he threw a book at him-a small one. Recent events caused the incident to be recalled with chuckles...
...United States is prepared to consider open-mindedly and generously any reasonable plan with a view to realizing China's aspirations"; Eki Hioki (Japan): "China can expect to reach her goal only by successive stages. . . .The granting of tariff autonomy presupposes a strong, unified Chinese Government"; Sir Ronald Macleay: "Great Britain is prepared to discuss tariff autonomy either at this conference or at a later...
...preeminently an age of form. Today the fashion runs to formlessness. Instead of the stately heroic couplet, poetry now flies to the freedom of vers libre. Instead of the terse, direct prose of Swift, satire now expresses itself in the genial lunacy of Donald Ogden Stewart or Ronald Fairbank...
...even after 20 or 40 years, as the players in the U. S. Senior Women's Golf Championship proved last week. Harassed by a high wind that swept the Westchester Biltmore course (Rye, N. Y.) Georgianna Bishop, national women's champion in 1904, defeated Mrs. Ronald H. Barlow of Philadelphia. Miss Bishop took 181 strokes to play 36 holes, and Mrs. Barlow two strokes more-better golf than is played by many a big-fisted stockbroker...
...agreed to be an excellent play and has made an even more excellent movie. This blinded soldier fails to report to his fiancee his return to the land of the living, believing that she should not be tied for life to a broken anchor. Vilma Banky, Viennese blonde, and Ronald Colman play the parts. Miss Banky seems a singularly felicitous and decorative addition to the ranks of California celebrities. The Everlasting Whisper...