Word: tatting
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...University of Chile. War: General Bennett. Public Works: Angel Guarello, onetime Minister of Justice and at present the most prominent Democrat in the country. Thus did the Army officers accomplish by the pen what is usually undertaken in Latin America by the sword-a coup d'état. Not only this, they apparently received the plaudits of vast sections of the Chilean populace...
Accident more than anything placed the erstwhile President of the Senate in the Presidential Chair; but something worth while caused him to rise from a village school boy, from an obscure lawyer, to un homme d'État and a respected Senator. In Indo-China as Magistrate, in Algeria as Justice of the Peace, as Minister at various times of the Colonies, of Commerce, of Education, or of Foreign Affairs, his low, slow and simple voice never failed to impress men. He speaks with a certain ardor that compels, and with a knowledge of his subject that only brings...
...joint conference wound up its work on the tax reduction and turned out a compromise that, it was thought, would pass both Houses. The Democratic tit was left in exchange for the Republicans being allowed to retain their tat. Each group was given a sop such as was most likely to secure its vote...
...acid test of the new Ministry. On the other hand the Royalists are suspected of ulterior motives, as the famed General Metaxas, former Royailst general in the ill-fated Asia Minor campaigns against Mustafa Kemal, and leader of last autumn's Royalist coup d'état, is now at liberty to reenter Greek politics...
...that a majority of the common stockholders, who were most affected by his scheme of financing, were in favor of it. He could not, however, secure the needed two-thirds vote, and his plan consequently fell through. Partly to conserve working capital and partly perhaps as a tit-for-tat with the rebellious preferred stockholders, the 'dividend on the latter issue was passed...