Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tongue-slip was double, for in the absence of Laborite Prime Minister MacDonald, Mr. Snowden was himself the acting Prime Minister. Said he with a wry grimace. "It will take a little time for us to recover from old habits...
...right, Your Worship," said he. "Mrs. Cratchitt and I, we've forgotten our little differences. I've arranged to pay all her debts. As a matter of fact, I've done pretty well. For 30 years I've had a cat's meat round in the City, and if I do say so I'm a man of independent means...
...said Meatman Cratchitt. "Funny...
...must drill two hours weekly, attend camp one week each summer for field instruction. There is no regular army. A skeleton force of 1,582 instructors is retained as a "permanent" army. To defend the continent last year there were just 45,273 citizen soldiers potentially under arms.* Said Prime Minister Scullin...
Next morning M. Briand said that the Havas Agency had misunderstood him, added that of course his telephone would have been answered if it had rung. In a bristling statement from which it appeared that somebody was lying, he declared: "To my surprise I learned in the evening that Daladier had decided to give up, and intended giving as an excuse that I had abandoned him. I immediately sent word that I was ready to collaborate. He gave up anyway, and I am beginning to ask myself whether what he hoped for from me was not collaboration, but refusal...