Word: vente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short time ago France and Jugoslavia solemnly signed a treaty of military alliance. For Jugoslavs it was a guarantee against aggression by Italy. Much relieved, they gave vent to open anti-Italian agitation. Long and loud were the cries that the treaty had "put Italy in her place" and had "shattered Mussolini's aggressive aims in the Balkans...
Feeling that the American arguments had been lacking in substance, Andrew Haddon of Edinburgh University gave vent to the boast that he would "smite them hip and thigh, and scatter the bones of their arguments to the four winds." The whole contention of the English speakers was that pacifism was a good peace time doctrine, but did not reach the fundamental causes...
...same time an ugly storm gathered its forces of wind and rain, and, shrieking, screaming behind the white-topped sea mountains, lashed itself into tortuous fury and vent its wrath on this same island of Kiushiu...
...Cherbourg the authorities, alarmed at the threats of the Reds, decided to abandon a scheduled parade. They had not enough police to control the Communists, who were obviously seizing upon the occasion as an excuse to give vent to their political wrath...
...Many who listened sympathized; but wondered at what the great Poiret was driving. Of course French folk and the U. S. colony at Paris like nothing better than to hear "native" U. S. citizens belittled; but had shrewd Paul Poiret no more in mind than to vent a trifle of honest spleen? He had. He made mention, at last, of an intention to tour the U. S. next fall, lecturing to women's clubs on how a U. S. woman may divine whether the imported gown of her choice...