Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last spring a protocol to the League of Nations for the purpose of guaranteeing European frontiers and punishing any aggressor nation, having been laboriously arrived at, was knocked on the head by the refusal of Great Britain to sign...
...rendered homage to M. de Fleurian's cuisine. Most distinguished of the guests was Alanson B. Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, attired immaculately as ever, owlish in his heavy horn-rimmed spectacles. His presence at the political feast, considered a signficant sign of U. S. interest in the security parley, despite unequivocal and official denials, was a topic of discussion for days after. Rightly or wrongly, the U. S. Ambassador was credited with having prepared the way when he was in Berlin for the security proposals which last February emanated from Germany...
Died. O. J. Gude, 63, Manhattan advertising man, chairman of the O. J. Gude Co., outdoor advertisers, famed as "the creator of the Great White Way" because he was responsible, some 25 years ago, for the erection of the first electric advertising sign; in Bad-Nauheim, Germany, of heart disease...
...version of the reason of his resignation as Secretary of State was also promulgated (the common story is that he refused to sign the second Lusitania note to Germany). It was said that he had prepared a note to the Austrian Government (accounts of the new version differed as to the exact matter in question) which Mr. Wilson recalled and revised without consulting him, and that he thereupon resigned. Some doubt was cast upon this account...
...Dalles, Ore., a thirsty tourist beheld a roadside spring over which the Highway Department had nailed a sign: THIS WATER IS CONTAMINATED. He hurried to the spring, began noisily to drink. A highway official, driving by, stopped to warn the drinking fellow. "Hi, Chief," said the guzzler, "what kind of mineral water is this here contaminated water? I never heard of it before, and this is the first time I seen it advertised." The official crawled away. Next day the old sign was replaced with another: THIS WATER IS ROTTEN. NOT FIT TO DRINK...