Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accordance with this theory Constance determines to go to work, and earn enough to pay her board and lodging, and so have no obligations toward her husband. This she does, and at the end of the play she hands John a cheque for a thousand pounds, and tells him that she is going off for a six weeks' holiday with another man, who has loved her for fifteen years...
...question to be debated will be one of Chinese independence, and will be worded as follows: "Resolved, That the Western Powers should recognize the Nanking Nationalist Government as a first step toward surrendering political control over the Chinese tariff and foreign policy and gradually abandoning the extraterritorial features of the concessions...
...White House to tell President Coolidge that Ambassador Herrick would soon be well enough to return to Paris. President Coolidge let it be known that when Ambassador Herrick is ready to resume his post, instructions will be ready for him in the matter of the Briand proposal, instructions looking toward a treaty's adoption...
...made the Countess of Oxford and Asquith famous. Her autobiography, published in 1922, was a mansion of closets, each inhabited by a dusty skeleton. The enormity of its sale was caused by a universal appetite for prying gossip; its result was an eagerness among publishers to coax Author Asquith toward further indiscretions of the printed word. Her present volume is full of good sense: "Most men and women Eat, Drink, and Sleep too much to keep their minds active or their, bodies healthy." If such iconoclasms on Carelessness, Taste, Fashion, Human Nature, Fame. Character, Politics, had been devised by Mary...
...WHOLE movement is A TREND toward the SIMPLE the extremely SIMPLE, in fact...