Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chinese Dynamite. Instituters are fond of the words "dare" and "dynamite." They boast that at their round tables the unofficial delegates rush in where statesmen dare not, grapple with questions too dynamitey for diplomacy. Chinese Chief Delegate David Z. T. Yui took the Instituters at their word last week. At the first session, before formalities were even disposed of, he leaped up and shrilly accused Japan of using murder as an instrument of national policy. This accusation should have had special interest for John D. Rockefeller III. He had dined a few days before with the son of the murdered...
...Never put off until tomorrow what you can just as well put off until next week"- such was the Irish motto cheerfully followed by Scot James Ramsay MacDonald on his return last week to Britain...
...Parliament's bull-of-the-week was made by famed Philip Snowden, crippled, drawn-faced Chancellor of the Exchequer. He referred to former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (now a mere Conservative M.P.) as "the Prime Minister," then clapped an anguished hand to his forehead as the House burst into goodnatured roars...
...certain type of motor horn. To Londoners, ''Beep! Beep!'' is the familiar cry of the cat's meat men, picturesque peddlers who sell to thrifty housewives not the meat of cats but little skewers stuck with carefully diced meat for cats. Last week Britons were startled to learn that at least one cat's meat man is not only picturesque but opulent...
Sturdily Miss Ishbel MacDonald refused to speak or write for pay while her Prime Minister father was the guest of President Herbert Hoover (TIME, Oct. 14, 21). But safe back in England last week, the Scotch lassie put by a tidy bit for three articles sold to the New York Evening Post. Like Ishbel's eyes, the articles sparkled yet were thoughtful. They answered the question: "What does Ishbel MacDonald think about...