Word: supplee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There follows the Delegate of Czechoslovakia, keen, supple Foreign Minister Edouard Benes (Benesch) who casually observes that he sees nothing very new about the Soviet plan. The late U. S. President Woodrow Wilson, says Benes, envisioned wholesale scrapping of armaments. . . .
Strong hands, quick to become doubled fists, a hard jaw, and a heavy scowl have sometimes been called the typical externals of President Plutarco Elias Calles. The fact that he once publicly alluded to "the grunts of the Pope" caused some to fear that his mind might resemble his fists...
French premiers are proverbially supple in their politics, but last week three statesmen aged 66, 63, and 55 who have held the Premiership a total of seven times proved themselves also supple in their joints.
Brian Oswald Dorm-Byrne, the storyteller, has now done* what it has long seemed he might do-put aside his sentimental inclination and surrendered himself completely to the language of the Bible, to the epic fever of the century that produced the last great religion. The fighting man in him...
During the week M. le President Gaston Doumergue, beady-eyed, humorous, possessed of the most supple and successful fund of political tact in France?