Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major social war was whirling horribly about his wife, in highest, mightiest circles. Vice President Curtis had notified Secretary of State Kellogg that Mrs. Gann was his hostess and that, as such, she should have the full rank of the Vice President's lady in the complex social scheme of official Washington. Secretary Kellogg had ruled that Mrs. Gann could not rate on the level of the Vice President but below the wives of the Chief Justice, the Speaker, the Secretary of State, and all foreign Ambassadors and Ministers...
Solemnly before these most astute and potent moulders of opinion, Viscount Reading came out in unqualified endorsement of the Lloyd George scheme for putting Britain's 1,400,000 unemployed to work on roads and public buildings?a scheme widely denounced as impractical, impossible, vote-getting tosh (TIME, April 1). "I consider these proposals a brilliant and workable means," said Rufus Daniel Isaacs, "of making an end of a canker that has been eating into the nation's heart...
...home emptyhanded. Spanked, therefore, and sent back for the milk, were Child Gompers and cousin." Then says Dr. Jones: "What would you have done?" Thereupon the children debate until they discover how Child Gompers and cousin could have settled their dispute, avoided their spanking. Says Dr. Jones: "The new scheme . . is far more effective than the passing along of a series of 'do's' and 'dont's' all ready-made by adults...
...funny how some little thing, irrelevant to the general scheme of the play, catches your fancy and stays in mind long after the rest of the spectacle has vanished. An example of this is one Franker Woods, as the program has him. If we were not dead certain from accounts in the daily press that Fred Stone is at present a broken-legged individual, or at best a golfing convalescent, we would go up to this Mr. Woods, and holding him gently between the thumb and forefinger say "You are Fred Stone!" For never have we seen such a resemblance...
...Chinese Minister of Railways and Reconstruction. Without batting either of his eyes, Mr. Sun coolly asked legislative approval for a 50-year program of public works to cost the breath-taking sum of 12 billion 500 million dollars. Bold and ten times bold, this scheme would commit the fledgling, two-year-old Nationalist Government to pour out every year, for public works alone, a treasure half as large as the stupendous annual tribute which the Great Powers hope to wring from Germany in Reparations. China would spend $250,000,000 each year, while Germany must pay between...