Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nations. It was agreed that Chile, for example, might continue temporarily to exercise governmental control over her imports of scrap iron and scrap zinc, and over the importation of hares. Portugal retained temporary control of her fine wool and raw cork exports. Bulgaria chose to guard her exports of rose trees, roots, shoots; Sweden, her scrap iron; Czechoslovakia, her hop shoots...
...like Al Smith . . . how it overlays his conscience with Tammany psychology. . . . "I make no claim here that Smith is a Tammany plug-ugly. I honor him for having risen from the debasing subserviency. . . . This record is, of course, the old record of a young man. But the young man rose on this record. . . . The Tammany system goes on today as it went on 100 years ago and, indeed, as it will go on in our American cities unless Governor Smith and the sinister forces behind him are overthrown." Editor White...
...grant them more favorable trading privileges in his Congo. Thereafter, as before, the fabulous wealth wrung from strumpeteered Mother Congo was lavished by Wicked Uncle Leopold chiefly upon public works* in Belgium ; secondarily upon his many and riotously extravagant mistresses; and lastly upon his Queen, Marie Henriette, "The Rose of Brabant," a great-niece of Marie Antoinette, a great-granddaughter of Maria Theresa, and "lovelier than either" -as gallant King Leopold often told her. . . . Uncle Leopold visited the Congo as Monarch about 1860, receiving abject homage. Nephew Albert toured the Congo in 1909 as Crown Prince. This, the present state...
...Third Internationale" but is actually named the Third International Association of Workingmen. Last week the Communist party of the U. S. sent to Moscow as delegates to the sixth conference of the Third Internationale, Comrade John Pepper & Comrade John Loveday. A total of 50 nations were represented. Cheers rose all round Comrade Loveday, when he cried: "A free proletarian state will arise in the U. S. on the ruins of capitalism!" In short, the "Red Menace of Moscow" was in plenary and executive session, for the first time in four years. Conservatives redoubled nervous vigilance. Calm impartial observers refreshed their...
Abie's Irish Rose, The Strange Case of Captain Ramper, Dawn, The End of St. Petersburg, Lights of New York (Vita-phone) are all curious...