Word: steeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...playing and singing the Caballero de la Triste Figura. He was getting $200,000. To look more like the lank old knight he had dieted and exercised to reduce his barrel figure. Spectators on location noted that the fastidious singer-actor Flitted daily the ribby old horse playing his steed Rosinante (TIME...
...London it seemed like 1913 again when a great war scare stench was uncorked by Henry Wickham Steed, onetime editor of the London Times. He claimed to have obtained from Berlin official documents showing that for years successive German Governments have had secret agents in London and Paris preparing surveys for bomb, gas and germ raids. According to Mr. Steed, whose acumen and veracity stand high among his countrymen, harmless germ cultures have lately been released in London and Paris subways and the spread of the germs recorded by German agents. Last week the Nazi press bureau retorted: "There...
...WICKHAM STEED London Times London...
...from ten to 25, including cutlery-famed Sheffield. Supposing Labor to be definitely resurgent-that is, supposing Great Britain to have a Labor Government within the next two years-who would step into the shoes of un-laborite James Ramsay MacDonald? Recently that brilliant British Press Pundit Henry Wickham Steed dismissed as inconsequential all the Labor leaders "because none of them seems to have the stuff of leadership in him."* But inside the Party a brisk battle to capture Labor's executive control from paunchy, do-nothing "Uncle Arthur" Henderson and doddering "Old George" Lansbury is being waged...
...Pundit Steed, observing that "Ramsay MacDonald . . . may be unaware how subtly and swiftly public trust in him has ebbed during the past twelvemonth" and that "Stanley Baldwin's . . . passion for self-effacement and appearance of political indolence estrange and dishearten the younger conservatives," concluded: "At no time in the past 40 years have the British people been so leaderless as they are today...