Word: vassal
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...meeting of the 47 Workshop Club, at which F. C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, read one of the roles in a manuscript play by Mrs. C. P. Vosburgh, was held last evening at Vassal House...
Comrade Isidore Lubimov and heads of most other delegations understood Nebraska's McKelvie to mean by this that the U. S. and "her trusty vassal Canada" (as the Moscow Izvestia put it) are about to start dumping-"and how!" (a phrase popularized abroad by U. S. talkies). The European impulse was to call Mr. McKelvie a hypocrite when he said that under Federal Farm Board aegis the 275 million surplus bushels of U. S. wheat "will be sold, but they will be merchandised in orderly fashion; they will not be thrown overboard for anything they will bring, to demoralize...
...this same appeal up and down the U. S. wheat belt for two years to U. S. farmers. To carry an appeal to the world when it has already fallen on deaf ears in the U. S. seemed to many delegates twice hypocritical. That Canada is not the "trusty vassal" of the U. S. appeared when Canada's George Howard Ferguson, High Commissioner of the Dominion in London and Chairman of the Wheat Conference last week, said cuttingly of the U. S. Chief Delegate's speech: "It was prepared before Mr. McKelvie came to London and perhaps without...
Comrade Molotov, more specific, opened last week by stating that Russia's relations with Turkey are "most friendly"; with Japan, Persia and Afghanistan "also friendly"; with Italy "satisfactory"; with Germany "improved"; with Great Britain "fair." Poland, Comrade Molotov bluntly called a "vassal of France." France he mentioned as "the greatest menace to world peace-the European powder magazine...
...forth a third time to fetch Princess Guzisur, Temugin's 14-year-old affianced bride. On the journey the old man dies. The sworn marriage contract is broken, for of what use is fatherless Temugin as an ally? Ignoring the insult, an old minister of state tricks halfhearted vassal princes into allegiance to Temugin, and year after year the youth leads them into desultory warfare with faint glory and inconsiderable plunder...