Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What will become of Albert and François?" Frenchmen asked each other last week with sympathetic little shrugs, hoped the answer of Fate would not be too hard. The two old servants were Georges Clémenceau's valet and chauffeur. His last act was to draw their hands to his lips and kiss them, just before he said: "I want no women and I want no tears! Let me die before men" (TIME...
...little man in blue kept briskly on with his pretense of working, kept mum. When he won in the referendum by only two-tenths of 1%, he knew he would lose in the Reichstag last week. A shrewd loser's mouth stays shut...
...from France in a chartered tramp steamer. Her engines broke down. He reached Valencia two days late, after the revolution had fizzled, and just in time to be arrested for High Treason...
...There were two possible solutions to the problem set your Imperial Highness in today's maneuvers. Imperial Highness has chosen a third...
Victory. Soviet troops had advanced more than 200 miles into China's great Northern Province of Manchuria on two fronts (TIME, Dec. 2). Last week there should have been bonfires, triumphant parades, lusty bellowing of the Internationale in Moscow's vast Red Square. Instead, ghostly silence. Only the usual detail of Red Army sentries stood guard, their white breaths fuming in the frosty air, their close-fitting helmets exactly the shape of fat onions rampant, pointed upward. Suddenly the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Comrade Alexis Rykov, appeared, striding across the Red Square in his old leather overcoat...