Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though His Excellency Tcheng Loh took no further action, last week, other statesmen were busy with speculation as to what will happen when the League Council meets. Of the Great Powers only France is really anxious to force a show down with Hungary in the interest of her small national allies, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania. Italy must presumably oppose any action, lest she herself be proved to have shipped arms to Hungary in violation of the Treaty of Trianon. Germany is expected to take the same stand, though for the different reason that she fears the establishment of a precedent...
...straw vote privately held, last week, among members of the Secretariat of the League of Nations was reported to show an 85% concurrence with the much mooted project of moving the seat of the League to a larger metropolis. Vienna has loomed as the most likely choice, and Chancellor Ignaz Seipel has welcomed the scheme in a statement that he is "not opposed" (TIME, Feb. 27). Last week several League straw voters were reported to have complained that "the atmosphere of a small town [Geneva] is stifling" and that Swiss society at Geneva has not appreciably bestirred itself to welcome...
...London show an official of the British Broadcasting Company tut-tutted over the troubles of George V, with radio interference and promised His Majesty perfect reception with a new type of set. Meanwhile Queen Mary had strolled off to a booth where "Nosey Parkers" were for sale. When an attendant donned one of those clever rubber masks and blew up the nose to a grotesque, bulbous protuberance, Her Majesty reached for her purse. Perhaps she bought the "Nosey Parker'' to entertain her small and only granddaughter, "Baby Betty," 22 months old, daughter of the Duke & Duchess of York...
...Birmingham show, last week, the King-Emperor inspected carefully a display of "electric fires." It was then that he complained of smoke, in Buckingham Palace. Turning to the Queen, whom he calls "May" (short for Mary), he said: "I really wish that I had one of these electric thingumbobs in my room...
...alumnae whose visits to college are signaled by clouds of smoke hovering around the sorority houses. The conservative Juniors and Seniors complained, too, that the alumnae give incoming students a false impression, and lead the young to over-indulgence in the vice of tobacco. They cited evidence to show that college women are losing their health because of smoking. No doubt they gave graphic details of flooors strewn with cigarette butts, of smoking bouts fought with grim determination, of gloomy morning afters from nicotine orgies. The alumnae had no comeback; they meekly agreed to this drastic prohibition...