Word: waterloos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before leaving Waterloo Station, London, the ex-Lord Chancellor was asked if he had written out his speeches. " No," replied Lord Birkenhead, " God has given me a tongue and that is better than...
...were guaranteed against failure, loaned money right and left to everyone in sight. The wiser and sounder state banks took out national bank charters and thus retired entirely from participation in the program. In the wave of deflation during 1921 the remaining guaranteeing and guaranteed state banks met their Waterloo. The fund was wholly too small to pay off the depositors of the scores of insolvent banks in Oklahoma, and now the whole law has been abolished. Legislators are wiser, and depositors are poorer. If all such hastily enacted laws could thus be thoroughly tested within our "progressive " states before...
...debut, nor is he ever likely to. Lord Birkenhead, ex-Lord Chancellor, leads the political world in jazz dancing. No band is too fast for him. Another statesman, chided about his jazz passion, retorted that the Duke of Wellington left a ballroom in Brussels to fight the Battle of Waterloo...
...meeting of the University Engineering School chapter of the Tau Beta Pi honorary fraternity held directly after the initiation of the chapter Wednesday night, Earl Pierce Nelson 3E.S., of Waterloo, la., was elected president, and George Gerard Tunnell Jr. 1G., of Chicago, III., vice-president for next year. The other officers were selected as follows: Recording secretary, Eliot Furness Porter 3E.S., of Hubbard Woods, III.; corresponding secretary. Morris Stone 4E.S., of East Weymouth; and treasurer, Matthew Scott Brownell 4E.S., of Washington...
...dusty corner of the Louvre a Paris antiquarian discovered Napoleon's bay mare?that he rode at Waterloo...