Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening. Of speeches he has made none. In writing, every now and then? just often enough to keep on the front page?he injects himself into the public mind at regular intervals: writing a letter on the Ku Klux Klan, wiring the American Federation of Labor to thank it for its endorsement...
...Connaught aboard. At Spithead, the King reviewed, for the first time since 1914, the British grand fleet, consisting of 194 warships, which steamed past him in four rows, each ten miles long. Ratu Rabici and Ratu Veli, Fiji Chiefs, journeyed to London to converse with King George and to thank him for the benefits of 50 years of British rule. They said that the King expressed great pleasure that the people of Fiji were happy and contented; they added: "The King asked us what sort of clothes we wear in Fiji. Did we wear the European dress that we were...
...Thank you. I shall be in Madrid shortly, but I advise you to exile yourself before my arrival...
Political Guarantee. "It was necessary to consider the possibility of Germany's failing to carry out the extremely reasonable payments imposed by the Dawes Report. With a loyalty for which I thank him, Mr. MacDonald renewed to me the assurance, which he had given to MM. Theunis and Hymans and which was asked for in a letter by M. Poincaré, that in case Germany failed to fulfill her obligations as laid down by the experts, who had acted in all independence and impartiality, Great Britain, like France, the guardian of contracts, would engage herself solemnly to side with...
Author Henry may perhaps be remotely autobiographical when he has his hero start the book by saying: "I thank God that I have always possessed an instinct to jot things down on paper." In any case, while his book is marred by certain immaturities of style and some inexcusably bromidic Latin and French quotations, he himself has managed to jot down a not-too-implausible tale, and some fairly deft characterizations. In between his other activities, he has evidently given some thought to Harvard's race question also, for echoes of that problem appear throughout the story...