Word: solider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henderson performed an international public service last week when he dismissed Baron Lloyd. It was he who last summer forced Egypt to accept the Cabinet of Mamud Pasha, who commanded only 28 seats in the Egyptian Chamber, whereas the "Opposition" led by Mustafa Nahas Pasha is a solid phalanx of 170 Deputies (TIME, July 30, 1928). A far less outrageous deed would be?...
...support. And they militantly demanded exclusion from the new Cabinet of go-getting Andre Tardieu, "the most American-minded Frenchman," who was M. Poincaré's close colleague as Minister of Interior, a post which the Radical-Socialists especially covet. 3) The factions of the Right appeared to be in solid phalanx behind a demand that M. Tardieu should not only be retained but advanced to Finance Minister. 4) The whole Chamber was in an ugly mood because, just prior to M. Poincaré's resignation, the government with high-handed cloture put through a motion adjourning Parliament until autumn. This...
...Cleveland. There he paid $1 a week for board. He shot no pool, drank no beer, sang no barbershop ballads, ogled no wenches. He satisfied his social needs in the Erie Street Baptist Church. There he would memorize hymns and Scripture passages, play clerk to the trustees, mingle with solid people, spend little. A sanctimonious social life satisfied him, but high school did not. Though nattered by his academic nickname, "The Deacon," he was lured early by Business. Leaving school two months after his sixteenth birthday in 1855, he soon became office-boy in a warehouse on a day since...
...General," said a punctilious acquaintance, "come back and sit down. They've just put the Statue of Liberty in front of your place, carved out of solid...
...heat of their unbridled illicit intercourse that Mother Nature does not know how to discriminate in the production of offspring." Pointing squarely at the politicians who fanned the fire, the Courier predicted: "In 1932 they will be parading Mrs. De Priest's photograph to keep the South solid, Democratic and undefiled...