Word: state
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George V fell ill, the Royal Society of Medicine celebrated with a banquet. The Prime Minister of Great Britain was there to tell a little story in his warm Scotch way. Baron Dawson proposed His Majesty's health, adding in impeccable bedside tones: "Tonight is a suitable moment to state that the King in his recovery goes on from strength to strength...
Equally egoistic was the funeral which Clemenceau demanded from France last week and which she humbly gave. "He asked that there be no state funeral," said Prime Minister Tardieu, "I need not say there will be none." In every French garrison, on every warship, in every French colony, cannon banged out a 21-gun salute while the Father of Victory was buried in a hole dug in a briar patch at his birthplace, Mouilleron-en-Pareds, a bleak region
...white wolf, not for his daughter Patricia but to give to the Boston Zoo. A nameless, snarling Montana coyote, exhibited by its owner, Fred Smidlap of Lakewood, N. J., was said to be "an unusually interesting pet." In a corner of his own slept a skunk. Because New York State law prohibits the exhibition of cats for more than two successive days, last event of the spectacle was a cat show. From far and near came black, red, cream, chinchilla, silver, smoke and brown toms and tabbies. Judges pulled fur, pried open eyes, thumped sides, tabulated their conclusions. Best...
...considered as a candidate for beatification. The ecclesiastical tribunal which sat on his case ordered disinterment of his body. When the body was removed last week from its coffin in the crypt of Loigny Church, where it had lain since 1887, it was reported to be in a "miraculous" state of preservation?no rigor mortis, hair and skin "as natural as in life." General de Sonis Was beatified...
...subsiding waters of Palestine. Said he: ''Palestine can never be a Jewish national home. It will always be an international home for Jews, Christians and Arabs alike." Added Dr. Magnes: Jews must renounce the idea of political domination, should be willing to make Palestine a binational State, a holy land for all nations. Not kindly did Zionists take to these suggestions. Doar Hayom, Jerusalem Hebrew daily, immediately demanded Dr. Magnes's resignation from the University. Said The New Palestine, U. S. official Zionist weekly: "Does Dr. Magnes imagine that he imbues the Arab leaders . . . with a sense...