Word: rump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Socialists and others who came to the Treaties' rescue would be rewarded with posts in the next Cabinet. Of course the fact that the three Nationalists in the Cabinet had previously resigned as a protest against the Treaties (TIME, Nov. 2) had also made it desirable that the "rump-Cabinet" thus created should step down when the Treaties were safe...
...took no notice of the fact that three Nationalist Cabinet members had resigned as a protest against the pacts (TIME, Nov. 2). He "carried on" with a "rump" cabinet and drew fire from the Socialist Vorwaerts as follows: "It is naive indeed for the present Government's supporters to behave as though nothing had happened and Luther must remain the eternal Chancellor of the German Republic...
...miles from Windsor Castle to London. Monarchs innumerable have made that trip, some in pride and gaiety, riding with their lords and dames; some cowering in tilting coaches; some in those gleaming glass chariots of later days, that neither stretch the legs nor bounce the rump. Last week, one F. T. Zuna, U. S. runner from Newark, N. J., made that journey on his two feet, finished second in the annual British marathon, won by S. Ferris, Briton...
...follow the acceptance of the treaty I think it justifiable for them to use their strength to that end." Indeed as a last resort "the army may prevent elections which are only the blinds of an alien government." Perhaps the former "president" of the republic has forgotten the "Rump Parliament" and Cromwell the friend of the Irish...