Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In mid-July Trapper Courtois was brought back to Roberval by some fire rangers, so weak he could scarcely guide his canoe. In midwinter, he said, he had sent his boys ahead to their base camp with 50 pounds of flour, a moose flank and half a beaver while he...
The proposed exiles were the Doukhobors, that strange, lusty Russian religious sect which the Dominion government welcomed as settlers 30 years ago. The Doukhobors are thrifty and healthy. The Doukhobors are peace-loving. But they have ideas of their own and some of them are fanatics. When they do not...
If the Doukhobors are moved to an island, it will be a continuation of a long history of forced migrations. By Alexander I (1777-1825) the sect was rounded up from various parts of Russia and colonized in Tauris. In 1840 and 1850, the Doukhobors refused to participate in military...
Grumpy Dr. Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank refused to tell M. Moreau what Germans to invite, put him in a quandary. Dr. Schacht was wroth at the known intention of the Allies to convene the bank charter committee in Brussels? hotbed of hostility to the Reich. Presently correspondents learned at...
". . . And so, Messieurs, between a pear and some cheese, we have just laid the little cornerstone of a European federation; discreetly, between a pear and some cheese?which doesn't, you know, diminish at all the importance of the event."