Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give women cards and spades.† "I am so much for the women that I am for Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mc- Cormick. . . . I've known her since she was a girl and at such a time as this I think it's a pretty poor sort of man who wouldn't stand up for his friends...
Britons ought to set sail for Germany without passports or visas of any sort. Germans should make the reverse voyage unhampered by official red tape. These statements seemed so self-evident to British and German statesmen, during the past week, that an agreement was reached whereby citizens of either country may visit the other when equipped merely with proof of their nationality...
...born in Moscow and achieved the foundation of his present eminence when he won the Russian National tournament in 1909. To him, chess is less a philosophy than a war. He imagines the chessmen as weapons, not as words; his play is marked from the beginning with a sort of slow-burning and intricate belligerence...
...generation sacrificed the younger by its blind, selfish prejudice in bringing about the World War, only to continue in its folly when the war was over, is the theme of "Merchants of Glory", playing at the Repertory Theatre. It is a cynical attitude, but the cynicism is of a sort that stimulates thought, and the attitude is splendidly sustained throughout the play, relieved by humor and exaggeration, but not once betrayed by sickening sentimental ability...
...each nation. The proposal was boldly put and of course politely sidetracked. But it was not unpremeditated. M. Litvinoff had silenced the Trotzky opposition at home and, at the same time, managed to oppose the League plan in such a way that while openly committed to the most drastic sort of disarmament, Russia may remain outside all security agreements and thus continue to maintain the second largest, perhaps the largest, army-in the world...