Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among the majority of people the idea that a gentleman is one who can afford to live in other people's labour is not yet generally accepted. But in recent years a "leisure class" has begun to emerge, and it exhibits all the usual characteristics. Especially on the Atlantic seaboard, where contact with Europe is continual, the grandchildren of men who made money are already beginning elaborately to forget how it was made, are beginning to employ as much unnecessary labour as possible, because it is expensive, and to change their fashions as often as costumiers can invent new ones...
Last week, came the news that Colonel Mezzetti had captured the important position of Sirte, thus completing "the process of reestablishing Italian authority over the whole seaboard of Tripoli" and reaffirming "the complete sovereignty over those regions which is Italy's right and duty...
...other Powers had not carried out the terms of the Limitation of Armaments Treaty (TIME, Nov. 24, Dec. 1). Said he: "Now there is one small point about which, if I may, I should like to say a few words tonight. Many of the Southern states have a maritime seaboard-everything therefore referring to naval matters must be of especial interest to them. Now we have recently seen a good deal of publicity given to statements that the British Government were not carrying out their obligations under the Washington Treaty for the limitation of naval armaments...
Already Belgium has an alliance with France about which Britain has professed some anxiety. With Britain's southeastern seaboard within shellfire from the coast of Flanders, she has long made it a cardinal policy to protect the independence of the little kingdom. In Napoleonic times England warred on the Continent because of this danger, and for the same ample reason she again warred from 1914-18. The question which the chancellories of the world discussed last week was, will Britain agree to join the proposed entente in order to be better able to exert her protecting influence for little Belgium...
...inland folk to see the navy is natural enough. Up to a short while ago, it was customary to keep the navy near the water. If tars became landlubbers for a day in order to show the army its place in football, the contest was held near the seaboard in some such town as New York, Philadelphia, or Baltimore. Never have they made an inland excursion. Only of late, since the navy has taken to flying about over the country, have Westerners made bold to ask it for a football game...