Word: sixteener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This, it seems, was formed in the year 1711, for the highly laudable purpose, not of educating the public concerning fish, but of sending English manufactures to South America to be exchanged for shiploads of gold, und for taking over and miraculously disposing of the English national debt in sixteen years. Parliament was favorable and Mr. Walpole, the Cassandra of that generation, was deserted through his opposition to the scheme. "It seemed as if the whole nation had turned stock jobbers. Exchange Alley . . . was blocked by crowds. Every fool aspired to be a knave. . . . Innumerable joint-stock companies started...
...Sixteen University men are now rehearsing for John Galsworthy's play. "Justice," to be produced next week at the Copley Theatre. Although most of the men will act as supes, two or three are to take special parts, which will be assigned later in the week...
...Harry is now returning to England from a tour of Australasia and the United States. This present trip is only one of many that he has made in this country during the last sixteen years. As a result of his observations and knowledge of Englishmen and Americans, he is a staunch supporter of Anglo-American amity and union. It is probable that his talk today will touch on this subject...
...been everywhere in America during the last sixteen years," he said. "I've learned to know the people, and when you know people you like them, I like America, and I like her people...
...last years he became a director of the Associated Press and President of the New England Daily Newspapers Association, and received orders from King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy and King Albert of Belgium. Sixteen months ago he underwent an operation from which he never fully recovered...