Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassador to Spain. His first wife was of the most aristocratic section of Hoboken, famed Castle Point. The present Mrs. Ogden Haggerty Hammond of New York City and Ambassador Hammond tendered their luncheon to Royalty, last week, on the eve of returning to the U. S. for a short visit. They leave in charge of the Embassy in Madrid, quietly renowned Counselor Sheldon Whitehouse. He prepared for diplomacy as private secretary to the late Ambassador Whitelaw Reid, graduated to be Chief of the Near Eastern Division of the State Department, is suave, astute...
...increase and fortify the white germ-destroying corpuscles in the blood royal. The skilled specialist is prepared today to wage a long-drawn war of attrition with the enemy germs in which the chances of medical victory are enormously enhanced. The old-fashioned CRISIS was the climax of a short, decisive skirmish between the infective germs and whatever white germ-eating corpuscles the patient was lucky enough to possess...
...which from the first vigorously championed the Kellogg Pact Renouncing War (TIME, July 30) a document none too popular in France. During the last session of the League of Nations in Geneva, the Swindleress was dazzlingly present, offering and paying the unheard price of 25,000 francs ($975) for short feature articles for her paper by some of the leading journalists of Europe. Recently U. S. papers widely reprinted from La Gazette an elaborate exposé of a Communist plan to seize Paris. So craftily thickened was La Gazette's plot that but for a rival newspaper the swindle...
Next day Ex-President Plutarco Elias Calles issued a short and momentous declaration. His intentions and acts had been misunderstood, he said; and upon pondering the situation he was determined not to explain but to withdraw perpetually from any political activity whatsoever...
Dick followed Clarence about. But Clarence would not let Dick follow him to his eighth grade class in a Marshall County rural school. Dick stayed at home and grew big and fat. Poll came out on his flat, white head; little knobs grew into shiny, short, down-curving horns...