Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the sixth quinquennial convened at Washington, D. C., to meet in session until May 14. Delegates from dozens of countries registered. The President and Mrs. Coolidge, the Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg, other Cabinet and Embassy ladies did the honors. Distinguished women, with and without LL.D.'s, were to be seen at every function. Two white-haired matrons were conspicuous by reason of their official positions and the eminence of their services to womankind...
Noble Newport Potts, President of the National Patriotic Council. She sent Mrs. Moore a 1,000-word letter desiring categorical replies to such questions as "Will your conference . . . fail to open any session with prayer ?" "Will your conference . . . permit to be distributed . . . ultra-pacifistic literature including the horrible 'slacker's oath' wherein spineless young men promise never to fight for their country . . . and soulless women agree never to sew a bandage. . . ?" Were any persons listed in one R. M. Whitney's book Reds in America to speak...
...casual pedestrian, had he chanced to pass the House of Commons, would probably have stopped to admire its solemn dignity. His eye would have strayed upward, climbed the tower on which sits "Big Ben" and would have seen the light which shines above go out?the sign that a session had just ended. Not many minutes earlier, a weary man had risen from the Treasury Bench to make his way?some few hundred yards to his downy bed. . . . Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been battling for his maiden budget...
...from the Queen of Sweden (who said: "God has helped") the Landgrave of Hesse, Grand Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg, Duchess Paul Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen and Prince Rudolf of Lippe, countless Generals and others (see above), Chancellor Hans Luther returned to Berlin, attended a session of the German Industrial and Commercial Conference and, amid the noiseleosness of intense interest, made a few short statements of the Government's policy...
Bananas. Early in their session, the scientists were invited to assign the banana to its original home. It had long been agreed that southeastern Asia deserved the honor. Fossil seeds (probably Oligocene) from Colombia, however, argued that the banana is essentially an American fruit-Dr. Edward W. Berry, Johns Hopkins...