Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Round an ample table at the Hotel Royal in aristocratic Evianles-Bains three famed U. S. citizens lifted their glasses high last week. What was in the glasses was nobody's business. But what was Secretary Mellon, who had just returned from conferring with Finance Minister Count Volpi of Italy, saying to Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who had just conferred at Antibes, French Riviera, with Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and at Geneva, Switzerland, with Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Director of the German Reichsbank? What, moreover, was Agent General...
...Before they had scaled the nearly perpendicular republic, Signor Mussolini had leaped from his racer, received the respectful welcome of the two Capitani Reggenii (Regents) of San Marino. As the swaying limousines drew up, there clambered out, Signora Mussolini (Rachele Guidi), their daughter Edda, their sons Bruno and Vittorio. Round about stood in attitudes of somewhat disgruntled welcome, the 60 Grand Councillors of San Marino, an august senate from which the two regents are chosen twice a year. Well they might regard II Duce with suspicion, fear. Did not Caesar Borgia wrest the precious independence of the republic from...
...raddle-faced ruffians glared at each other across a table in a waterfront saloon. The little glasses at their elbows were empty, and a third man, standing over them, asked blandly for a new round of drinks, and took his place at the table. After a whispered conference the bartender was called over. Money changed hands-to each of the ruffians a yellow bill, to the bartender a large wad. And next evening, on a coal barge, or in some lot at the edge of town, the two ruffians met and battered each other with bare fists until...
...Total 1925 profits $8,300,000. Total assets $160,000,000. **Senior partner in half a dozen of the chief British Oriental steamship companies, Vice President of the Suez Canal Co., for the past three decades chairman or a member of a round two score of governmental committees charged with everything from signing a Commercial Treaty with China (1899) to selling German warships allotted to Britain under the Treaty of Versailles, still active...
...curious to reflect that the American debt settlement which has just been exposed to the cold blasts of unpopularity in Great Britain was entered into solely as an inevitable preliminary to restoring that standard. Otherwise we should have waited like sensible people and made a satisfactory all-round settlement with the U. S. and with our European debtors...