Word: vente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French Government confirmed for what must be the hundredth time its inalterable decision to remain firm on its Ruhr policy. President Millerand added his voice to that of the Government. During his recent tour of France he says the people energetically supported the Ruhr policy, giving vent to their approval in cries of "Stick it out! " "Don't budge!" "We are with you!" "Don't worry!" Despite these outward manifestations there is an inward tendency on the part of the Government to accede to the growing demands of organized labor and the big industrialists for an early Ruhr...
...outside of politics, Winston Churchill gives full vent to his literary genius. His book,* except for some too technical pages, is one of the most outstanding of its kind written since the war. The style is straightforward, easy, Churchillian?a style, be it said, that in the domain of politics more than once caused no inconsiderable alarm among his colleagues. No one should miss this book who takes an interest in pre-war European " fireworks," who is interested in British political figures of the period, who is interested in British naval policy...
...discharged cook, said that his fellow conspirator, Pi Ho-Song, stole a bottle containing a white powder from the chemical laboratory of the school and dumped the contents into the rice pot. It appears that both men were recently discharged and took this simple way of giving vent to their grievance...
...petits Moulins a Vent...
Whether in preparation for this week or not, there has recently rolled up from many quarters an extraordinary variety of opinion on education. Mr. A. B. See gave vent to inflammatory wrath against women's colleges in general, when he was asked to contribute to the Adelphi College endowment fund. Mr. See felt that colleges were responsible for "smoking, drinking, cosmetics, French heels, and all other flapperisms among young women", and the only ways out in his opinion was to burn them all to the ground. Then President Butler of Columbia complained in his annual report against "the spirit...