Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They kept making totally inadequate offers." continued Chancellor Snowden and went on to tell how "the quiet, plaintive Adachi" came to him one day to confide secretly that he would not actually stand against Britain and was only sitting in with the French, Belgians and Italians "as an observer." This blazing indiscretion amounted to revealing that Japan?the little naval ally of Britain?had been ready all along to double-cross the Continental Powers, several of whose offers to Snowden were countersigned by Dr. Adachi...
Servants of the people are not happy unless they serve. To stand and wait is not their forte. Congressmen before whose names the people have written "ex" instead of "X" become ambassadors to the Sublime Porte or Commissioners of This and That. Tammany Hall has no power to supply such opportunities for service to its late great, but its Spirit of Service operates in spite of obstacles. It was the motive force behind a business announcement of last week...
...this year they have been watching New York and a large part of the East undergo a seachange. Across the landscape has been appearing a horde of mollusk shells, artistically represented in red and yellow, with the letters SHELL prominently inscribed upon them. Oil men know that the letters stand for Royal Dutch Shell, great Anglo-Dutch rival of Standard Oil, and for its U. S. subsidiaries-Shell Union and Shell Eastern Petroleum...
...daughter Alice was engaged to marry Allan Hoover, the President's son. The two are "barely acquainted," said Mrs. Davis. She explained: one day on the Army's proving ground at Aberdeen, Md, (while Mr. Davis was Secretary of War), Allan Hoover and Alice Davis happened to stand near each other when a camera clicked...
...this kind of writing. After shooting his brother in an argument about a crap game, a Negro named Zeke turns preacher and converts the girl, Chick, who got him in the game. She beats up his rival with a poker, saying. "Ain't no one goin' to stand in my path to glory." This is the best line in Hallelujah, but Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes) has other good ones in the sermon in which, dressed as a locomotive engineer, he describes the cannonball express to hell. Sometimes local color dams up the story, but mostly, in spite...