Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gold: The Agent General urges immediate resumption of gold coinage by Germany, since the "Gold reserves of the Reichsbank now stand at the highest point ever reached; and, for the greater part of this last year, the mark has been one of the strongest currencies in the world, from the standpoint of foreign exchanges...
...year, only his weight in gold. The ceremony of weighing His Highness takes place each twelvemonth at Aga Hall, Bombay; and then and there the golden wage is payed by representatives of the various Mohammedan sects. No fool, the Aga Khan keeps fat. Also he is at pleasure to stand in with the British Government,* which pays him privily a fat subsidy for his good offices among the Mohammedan subjects of George V, Last week at Delhi, the splendrous new Capital of British India, it was His Highness the Aga Khan who presided as Chairman of the All Indian Mohammedan...
...MOMENT HAS COME WHEN NO THIRD PERSON MAY STAND BETWEEN THE PEOPLE AND THEIR KING...
...choir school, Rev. William Dudley Foulkes Hughes, an especial protege of Bishop Manning's, also is an Oxford man, but he attended the quite plebeian Hertford College there. Nevertheless, as bishop's friend, Mr. Hughes was able to irritate Dean's Assistant Bernardin. At last Mr. Bernardin could stand no more and resigned, preferring charges against Mr. Hughes...
...every corner the world around they took their stand last week as usual, just after nightfall. Tambourine shook, cornet squealed, trombone grunted. The thin bleat of pinched spinster voices, shrilling from time to time in accents of wailing fervor, took up the immemorial hymns. "Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb...