Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Serious to the Royal Family was the condition of Prince George's stomach. Stomach trouble caused him to be transferred four months ago, from the Navy to the more leisurely Foreign Office. Last week by doctor's advice he gave up even this job, retired to the country...
Feeling that no operation is minor to one who has been as sick as King George a great crowd gathered last week before the wrought iron gates of Buckingham Palace on Operating Day. The worried crowd waited while automobiles drove up bearing physicians, surgeons, a radiologist, anaesthetists. Saluted by sentries...
Chipper as a grey squirrel among sleek black tabby cats, dynamic Guest-of-Honor Dawes had turned up at the luncheon-tendered by the Travel Association of Great Britain & Ireland-wearing a "tropic weave" grey business suit of hard, aggressive cut. Every other guest of consequence sweltered, of course, in...
Bouillion v. Briand. Stout, excitable Deputy Franklin-Bouillion, who was Minister of Propaganda during the War and now leads the obstreperous Left Unionist Bloc, was last week the first anti-ratifica-tionist to cross a potent sword with M. Briand as the Foreign Minister assumed the Government's defense...
The General Director of the North German Lloyd is a very tiny Prussian (he stands scarce four feet ten) yet full proportioned, hard, compact. A dynamo of vital energy, he has built up for the North German Lloyd a whole new post-Versailles fleet of 700,000 tons. A stickler...