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...course all this is just Irish tosh, but the Queen-Empress and her advisers have apparently thought it unwise to overrule President Cosgrave openly. They were faced with a nasty dilemma when occasion arose for the Crown Council to accredit Mr. Michael MacWhite as Irish Free State Minister to the U.S. (TIME, March 25). But they found a weasel way out. Since the Irish were determined to honor none but Royal signatures, the necessary papers were signed by the Duke of York, Queen Mary and Edward of Wales only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crown & Politics | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Obviously such promises are electioneering tosh, but in 1918 Prime Minister Lloyd George won an election by promising to "hang the Kaiser," and today he knows that what the 1,400,000 British unemployed want to have promised them is jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Election | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...fact that she carried arms; 4) That German submarine commanders did not in any instance aggravate their torpedoing of merchant ships by an "atrocity" or act of cruelty; and 5) That the portion of the ... Treaty of Versailles which fixes sole War guilt upon Germany is simply tosh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ponsonby's Report | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...appointed day; and the Levee had to be held by Edward of Wales (officially representing His Majesty). The function was, in every social particular, the exact equivalent of a reception by the King-Emperor. Thus the story that Rudyard Kipling was not "forgiven" until last week is tosh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Insulter Kipling | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...species Babbitii of Homo Americanus Mukerji's latest offering will seem incomprehensible tosh about an incomprehensible person, one Rama Krishna, whom his followers call an Incarnation of God, as was also Buddha, Mohammed, and Christ...

Author: By H. W. Bragdon ., | Title: Biographies of Spiritual Leaders | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

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