Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seiior Pueyrredon's action was a Rooseveltian gesture. At one stroke he resigned as head of the Argentine Delegation and as Ambassador to Washington...
...reparation debt and the fulfillment of all disarmament conditions, then we will be only too pleased to go. . . ." ". . . When he [Dr. Stresemann] takes a walk in the olive garden of Locarno he has the habit of stretching out his hand to receive rather than to give." Significance. At one stroke the problem of the Occupied Rhineland has been officially removed by the occupying Power from the plane of military security to that of financial security...
...Third Stroke. Thus rebuffed, Foreign Minister Briand rebuffed back at Secretary Kellogg, last week, by "accepting in principle" the U. S. plan, but in such language that he virtually put forward a new and third proposal. He suggested that a treaty "renouncing aggressive warfare" between France and the U. S. should be signed at once, and that this document should be expanded and transfused, at some future date, into a general treaty among the Powers...
...bull fighting is not cruel. He proposed to prove it; to fight a bull in London; to show that speed, skill, sportsmanship which England worships are foundations of his trade. No horses would be disemboweled. Instead of killing the bull he would kiss it; tease the beast a little; stroke it; finally plant a caress on its cruel horns as it came plunging by. Lesser matadors at home in Spain followed anxiously the progress of their ambassador of good will toward bull fights in the foreign, unfriendly land of their Queen. Their livelihood, traditions, national sport of Spain were perhaps...
...napkin down on the table; before the servant could reach him, he had fallen to the floor across the arm of his chair. An hour or two later, the newspapers in Chicago had headlines saying that Marvin Hughitt, Finance Chairman of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, had suffered a paralytic stroke. The morning after the old man had been carried upstairs from his breakfast table, the newspapers published extra editions to say that Marvin Hughitt had died, without regaining consciousness. Some days later every wheel stopped on 10,000 miles of railroad...