Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bargain had been struck the French Foreign Ministry officially communicated to the British Foreign Office M. Briand's "conviction that the concerted action of France and Great Britain will enable the two Governments to obtain the approval of the naval powers concerned" for the Anglo-French project looking toward enhancement of British sea power...
...Himalayan Blunder." Since the whole ill-starred affair seems to have sprung from the blundering brain of Sir Austen Chamberlain, the duty of flaying him may properly be left to the press of his own country. Last week the Daily Express, an independent paper with strong leanings toward Sir Austen's own party (Conservative) said: "There is hardly a line in this long series of telegrams and despatches that does not betray a naive misunderstanding of all outside opinion and psychology such as Germany herself hardly surpassed in the days...
...citizen knows the name of the super-famed crack express train which plys between New York and Chicago. Similarly every smart European knows the Orient Express, famed Paris-to-Bucharest flyer. Last week this train de luxe sped Parisward from Bucharest, Rumania with shrieking whistle, tolling bell, toward Death...
Olszewska, speeding by train toward Chicago, took no notice. Superb singing, she hoped, might eradicate the stain. A good appearance, too, would help and remembering that the first rehearsal was early next day, that her one pair of shoes was dusty, she slipped them outside the compartment door. In the morning there were no shoes, polished or unpolished. Knowing no English, wanting no more scenes, Olszewska stole from the train in her red bedroom slippers, drove at once to the shopping district, scuffed up and down Michigan Avenue till she could find shoes worthy of a prima donna's first...
Tycoon Melchett rose to speak of Britain's industry, Britain's labor problems, Britain's new urge toward amalgamation...