Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council of the League of Nations sat-for the 49th time-at Geneva, last week. Seldom have Great Powers been more thoroughly flouted by Minor Nations than during the proceedings which ensued. The Powers were represented, of course, by the Big Five: 1) Sir Austen Chamberlain (Britain), supercilious to correspondents but ready with a queer, cackling laugh for his colleagues; 2) Monsieur Aristide Briand (France), tousled and heavy eyed as a tomcat at dawn; 3) Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany), plump, bald, rubicund, and yet with a trig, indefinable air of smartness; 4)Signor Vittorio Scialoja (Italy), representing with compact, bustling...
...Council authorized Secretary General Sir Eric Drummond to let contracts for a new $4,000,000 League Secretariat building at Geneva. This authorization appeared to definitely spike proposals to transfer the seat of the League to Vienna...
Sturdy old Sir Walter Runciman, 80, yielded a mite further, last week, to the biblical sin of pride...
Last week rich, tangy Sir Walter Runciman was like to burst with pride when his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Walter Runciman, was returned to the House of Commons from a bye-election in the Constituency of St. Ives...
...kilt was thrown on, and Sir Harry, who has been called the greatest recruiter in the British Empire, trotted on stage, with a "Waggle, waggle, waggle of his kilt",--"On to the end of the road...