Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Balfour, veteran statesman and a former Prime Minister, was also mentioned by his Conservative admirers...
Charles Louis de Saulces de Frey-cinet, veteran French statesman, died at his home in Paris, aged 94. He had lived during the reigns of Charles X and Louis Philippe, through the Second Republic, the regime of Louis Napoleon, through the first 52 years of the Third Republic. He was born at Foix in the Ariege, on November 14, 1828, was the son of Louis Claud de Saulces de Freycinet, celebrated navigator and savant, and belonged to an old Protestant family of Dauphiny?one of the most illustrious in France...
...advance and the standardization of its diction than any other modern writer, and whose chief work "I Promessi Sposi", marks practically the beginning of the Italian novel: Mussolini's choice, as usual shows eminent good taste and balance. He plays the role of man of letters as well as statesman...
...Statesman, London independent weekly, referring to the heated discussion on Stanley Baldwin's proposed tax on betting, says: "The rational case for such a tax, on financial and social grounds alike, is overwhelming. But no rational case will convince those who believe that any kind of betting on cards or horses or football is a horrible vice, comparable in its depravity, as some writers have declared, only with drunkenness and prostitution. Their fathers would have added dancing to the list, and certainly theatre-going. On no account will they consent to what is called its 'recognition...
While the angry voice of Moscow is busy telling the world exactly what it thinks of this eminent British statesman, British labor of the more radical order is pouring forth its own candid thoughts on the British Foreign Secretary. Making adequate allowances for this eloquent and angry tornado of censure from communists, there is no denying that the marquis is distinctly unpopular with the radical proletariat in Russia and Britain...