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...with the burly, curt Dictator. If, as seemed probable, one of them advised, "You should kiss the Pope's toe," and the other thundered. "Your Majesty must not!" the bantam monarch must have been in an awkward quandary. For on Dec. 5 next?it was announced last week???King Vittorio Emanuele III will pay his first visit to the Vatican. The toe must be faced...
Zeppelin Tour. Swift and sure the Graf Zeppelin accomplished its long frustrated Mediterranean tour last week??? 5,208 miles in 81% hours. Commander Dr. Hugo Eckener guided her through varied weather over the historical sites?from Friedrichshafen, over the Swiss Alps, Corsica, Rome, Pompeii, Crete, Cyprus, Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Greece, Albania, Jugoslavia, Vienna, and home to Friedrichshafen. April 15 he will begin another Mediterranean cruise, then in May two cruises...
...great and furious war god after whom their land is named, Mexicans again paid costly homage last week???by flying at each others' throats. There is no surer way of pleasing God Mexitl (see map). Exalted in that one of the 13 heavens which is his own?the fiery blue heaven, where the din of ghastly battle never ceases?this old pagan deity may well have looked down, last week, upon his people and exulted, "How little they have changed...
Myron Timothy Herrick, beloved and Francophile U. S. Ambassador to France, sailed from Manhattan last week???as usual on the French Liner Isle de France? to resume his post in Paris. Pale, he had just recovered from one more severe illness at his home in Chagrin Falls, near Cleveland...
...have caused to be shot as revolutionaries the only other presidential candidates, General Arnulfo Gomez (he of the Kaiser-like mustachios) and General Francisco Serrano (TIME, Nov. 21 et ante}. Therefore, General Alvaro Obregon, stern, one-armed warrior, rich rancher, ruthless patriot, was unanimously elected President of Mexico last week???there being no other candidate...