Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheered when they spied him on foot or in a boat. Mayor Walker quickly called the gondoliers "wet taxi drivers," the canals, "nature's pavement." On being shown the Doges' Palace, he lighted a cigaret, murmured to Count Pietro Orsi, Podesta of Venice, "Very historical." When he saw the sunset-colored pajamas worn by other guests in his hotel, he reflected, in jocular fashion: "If I dress like everyone else here nobody will know whether I am just getting up or just going to bed. Perhaps I will be able to retrieve my reputation for lateness that...
Proposal. Seiler Enrique Villegas (Chile), President of the League Council, astounded Geneva when he virtually declared in a public session that he saw no reason why the League should not interest itself in Latin-American affairs. It was even thought that the League might be asked to settle the long outstanding Tacna-Arica dispute (TIME, June 21, 28, 1926). Said British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain: "The League of Nations must become a reality, a personality in the eyes of the more distant nations belonging...
...Defense Committee said no, let them lie in their plain laboring-men's Sunday best?black cloth suits, black four-in-hand ties, un- comfortable black shoes. Let the coffins be of plain mahogany draped with Red, banked with odorous Red flowers. So it was, and their neighbors saw them as they had often seen them...
...Admiral Hough is one of the most distinguished of U. S. naval officers. Having been graduated from the Naval Academy in 1891, he saw active service seven years later in the Spanish-American War. Subsequently, he was appointed to many ships and was steadily promoted through all grades to his present rank. From 1911 to 1914 he was Naval Attache at Paris, and at St. Petersburg, (now Leningrad...
...quarter finals came the first surprise. Mrs. Mallory, winner last year of the championship from Elizabeth Ryan (Miss Wills did not play), fell before the skill and determination of Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer Chapin. Tennis followers saw in the defeat the eclipse of Mrs. Mallory, who came to this country from Norway as Molla Bjurstedt in 1915, and through the years until Helen Wills appeared, monopolized the U. S. women's tennis spotlight...