Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The fifty-fourth session of the Council of the League of Nations opened in Geneva, last week, with sardonic Vittorio Scialoja in the chair. This brilliant, skeptical Italian jurist comes of a line of Scialojas who have been magistrates and grand dignitaries since the 17th Century. He collaborated with Woodrow...
(2 of 2) derived at this time from the British Organization of Fascists. As secretary of these young, Conservative zealots she led them in numerous "Raids on Reds" during the British General Strike, and did valiant service in breaking up Communist mass meetings in Hyde Park.
The great social and religious forces now interacting and savagely opposed were first generated in the 16th century when Spain overthrew the pagan empire in Mexico, imported the Catholic Church, and set up in Mexico City an inquisition to extirpate such beliefs as that in Mexitl.
Masses Resumed. Throughout the northern states controlled by the rebels, Catholic priests were permitted to resume the public celebration of the mass for the first time since General Calles (then President) commenced to enforce the anti-Catholic laws (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926). In Nogales, Sonora, Father Jose Pablos grimly said...
1) For an Insult-in-Ordinary, repair to the doorstep of your Insulter, and there publicly jump up and down, holding your breath, until your face is purple with congested blood. The insulter's neighbors will not let him forget this rebuke in a hurry.