Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This remedy is infallible. The only trouble is that in most cases the eucalyptus chokes the patient to death. It is easy to draw a parallel. The gold standard was an infallible remedy for financial dissension. Unfortunately it shows every sign of choking British trade to death. The coal strike is a direct result of the reimposition of the gold standard. Costs of sales abroad are being raised by this. Costs of production here had to be diminished in order to compete in the world market...
...estimated that some 3,000,000 Belgian francs were saved during the week through this self denial, enforced upon the country by King-Albert, now Dictator of Belgium (TIME, July 26 et seq.). Protest. Delegations of Belgian hotel men waited upon His Majesty last week, petitioned him not to sign a decree increasing the tax on foreigners' hotel bills in Belgium 20%. The King was informed by many an anxious boniface that tourists will not flock to Belgium if the present inducements of free visas and low taxes are curtailed. "World Crime Wave." The First International Conference on Penal...
...incalculably valuable Imperial estates. The delegates reminded Super-Tuchun Wu that Henry P'u-yi, who now resides quietly in the Japanese quarter of Tientsin, has not even received the absolute minimum of $500,000 per annum promised him (TIME, Nov. 17, 1924) when he was forced to sign his "supplemental abdication" by Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-Hsiang, former War Lord of Peking. Would not Super-Tuchun Wu, cried the delegates, add luster to his reputation as the exponent of China's former aristocracy by restoring a clinking golden aura to "The Son of Heaven?" Super-Tuchun...
...replied, "I could swim ten miles before your mother was weaned. Voila-your hand, take it away. . . ." She plunged into the pool. The crowd cheered. Later in the day the women started a distance race. Mme. Desprez won it, swam for more than an hour, showed no sign of fatigue. Asked for a speech, she told the wondering throng that she had been born in 1839, that her father had been a teacher of swimming, that she herself had taught for many years in the Samaritan Baths in Paris...
...This sign, printed boldly above a slot-machine in a new Chicago dancehall, was the opportunity. Powder for men. Could you believe it? The Chicago Tribune editorial writer, justly incensed, pounded out a scathing denouncement in which he held up to ridicule the forerunner, the great prototype of the breed that blanched their faces artificially...