Word: stated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt, had the boy murdered. He also decapitated one of his mistresses, Mary Hamilton, and delivered an anatomical lecture on her head. Withal, savage Peter was called "The Great." Last week on the white sands at Biarritz it remained incumbent upon Spain's fashionably tanned Alfonso XIII to state clearly which of Peter I's gargantuan examples he would like to follow "if it could be done...
...Princesses of Liechtenstein had at least an even chance of espousing archdukes of Austria. Last week members of the few aristocratic families left in Vaduz, capital of Liechtenstein, wished that they could refuse to believe their eyes and ears as they saw Prince Franz enter his castle in state with that woman, then heard his Grand Chamberlain present her to "every son and daughter of Liechtenstein" as "the new mother of our country, Princess Elsa...
Startling are some of the many statements quoted from potent Britons, past and present, to show that in unguarded moments even staunchest Imperialists share a measure of Dr. Sunderland's views. For example, as long ago as 1911, Lord Morley, then Secretary of State for India, described the native officials in the Indian Civil Service as men "as good in every way as the best of the men in Whitehall" (i.e. equals of the officials in Britain's own Civil Service...
George Young, British Labor Member of Parliament, said: "I am aghast at realizing how far and how fast the American and British ships of state have since the war come athwart each other's course and are today heading for a collision...
...patients. Although he had licensed physicians on his staff, he frequently examined patients himself, persuading women (many have complained to city health authorities) to strip naked except for stockings and shoes. To hesitant patients he sometimes declared that he was a graduate physician, although he had no New York State license. Usually he merely conveyed the impression of being an authorized practitioner. Doing that is a misdemeanor in New York. But he was not prosecuted...