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...peace for more than a few days. Cabinets fell and rose. Venizelos, who had been recalled from a self-imposed exile, became Premier (TIME, Jan. 21, 1924). A few days in power and he fell (TIME, Feb. 11, 1924) and in a month had again left the country to stew in its own juice (TIME, March 17, 1924). A Kafandaris Cabinet was succeeded by a Papanastasiou, by a Sofoulis, by a Michalakopoulis...
Poincarism; and even if the franc is to follow the route of the. mark, they seem to prefer to let France stew in her Socialist juice for a while...
...poll," "extol," "dole," "cajole," "condole," etc., carefully explaining that the first meant the head; the second, to praise in highest terms; the third, to give in small quantities; the fourth, to impose on by flattery or delusive promises; the fifth, to express sympathy, etc. The Graphic limerick rhymed with "stew" and "chew"; the Home News offered "barbecue" which, they said, is "an animal, roasted whole"; "phew,"?"an expression of disgust or surprise," they made clear; "eschew," which means to "avoid" or "shun," the editors of the Home News told the public so that there would be no mistake about...
...haired Maria Jeritza; Mmes. Margaret Matzenauer and Kathleen Howard and Messrs. Rudolf Laubenthal and Martin Ohman supported her. A grand house applauded. Critics commended. Plot. In a Moravian village lived Jenufa, the prettiest girl in the countryside, in whose grey glance lodged witchery. She was loved by Stewa, village stew, and by his brother Laca, an honorable gaffer, who deplored the low-lived ways of Stewa. Without virtue himself, Stewa appropriates Jenufa's. Months go by. She gives birth to a difficulty. Jenufa's stepmother pleads with Stewa. Will he not make Jenufa an Honest Woman...
When President Wilson was abroad everyone knew that America had her finger in the stew. Daily bulletins from Paris told how the world was being reordered by the arbiters of destiny. But then the Democratic Party, the party of participation, was in power here. Now the Republican Party, the party of isolation, is in power, and accordingly one would expect matters to be very different, at least on the sur face. This is, indeed, the case...