Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once there was a little Victorian boy whose father wanted him to become a great statesman. He was sent to Rugby, to aristocratic Trinity College, Cambridge. Then, in order that he might meet statesmen who really mattered, he went to Germany. He became almost intimate with Bismarck, a great feat for a stripling. The Kaiser himself was reported to have listened without displeasure to the conversation of young Austen Chamberlain...
Excitement mounted feverishly last week as Canadians sought the polls for a general election. Canadian statesmen have been thwarted, hamstrung in their efforts to govern during the past year by a strangling deadlock between Liberals and Conservatives. Would the new election break this deadlock and give either Liberals or Conservatives a workable majority? Canadians pondered that question last week with an anxious, even prayerful, interest...
...Britain has never been willing that any one Continental power should dominate Tangier lest it be fortified into a menace to the route to India. No one believed last week that Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera would achieve the momentous concession from the Powers which he appeared to seek. Statesmen winked an eye and remarked that the Dictator was only trying to stir up sufficient trouble to enable him to demand a permanent League Council seat for Spain as the price of being good...
...were these so eminent statesmen hanged? Their death sentences declared them participants in the alleged plot to assassinate President Mustafa Kemal Pasha-as a result of which 13 suspects had already been executed (TIME, July 26). But this surprising total of 17 hangings can find no justification in a, "plot" which, if it ever existed, was never brought to the point of endangering Mustafa Kemal's life...
...epithet applied between 1880 and 1910 to all manner of aged men (British statesmen, pioneer missionaries, U. S. village doctors) ; now obsolete. †The modern "time-clock" is an ingenious contrivance shaped somewhat like a bicycle wheel, with a revolvable indicator pointing to various numbers assigned to different persons respectively. If person No. 6 "punches" the indicator into his slot upon his arrival at 10:30, the time is so registered; and the boss arriving later knows his office boy was tardy...