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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Best hater of Stresemann was Clemenceau. Last week Clemenceau was thumb-nailed by the only woman except his daughters to whom he left money (100,000 frs: $3,930), his stenographer, Mme. Pernoud.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Two Men | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

"The morning I was summoned to go to Clemenceau's home," said she in Paris, "I was warned above all not to put rouge on my lips, and not to wear high-heeled shoes. 'Clemenceau has a horror of all those things in women,' I was told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Two Men | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

"I was received with the utmost cordiality. From the first morning that I worked with Clemenceau I learned of his great heart, his unfailing generosity, and his great respect for humble folk. . . . His grandeur was that of a god, but his simplicity attached him to earth.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Two Men | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

"People were wrong to say that Clemenceau was an antifeminist. In giving women franchise and social liberty, he did fear the influence on them by the clergy. Accordingly he was against too much power for women in Catholic countries. The Protestant religion he considered more as a philosophy, and he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Two Men | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Grigorie J. Sokolnikov, newly appointed Soviet Ambassador to Britain, arrived in London fortnight ago, bought a new dress suit in which to present his credentials to King George, and waited. Eight days passed. Conservatives, chuckling at a chance to embarrass the Labor Government, stood up in Parliament and loudly asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Memory of a Cousin | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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