Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chapel was six miles from the village, and in order to worship he had to hire a trap-it was before the days of motor cars. It cost him six shillings, and being a Scotsman, he was a thrifty man. His religion compelled him to spend six shillings a week to drive from Lossiemouth to Elgin. But his desire to get good value for his money compelled him to commit the sin of drunkenness on Saturday, in order that he might have some reason to go and interview the Priest and get absolution next morning." Instant were the repercussions...
Veto. Also envisioned in the Young Plan was a veto proviso drafted last week at Baden-Baden to give the central bank of each nation power to limit or prevent any transaction of the B. I. S. in the country of the central bank in question or in its currency...
Stumpers. There was no agreement last week as to the city in which the B. I. S. shall be set up. The British continued to clamor for London, the Latins remained violently opposed. The delegates were also stumped to find an adequate authority for setting up the B. I. S. at all. Perhaps it would require a multilateral treaty among all the Powers concerned, and that would mean finding a weasel way around the expected unwillingness of the U. S. to sign. Questions involving the minor powers and personnel of the B. I. S. proved additional stumpers. Even hustling, driving...
...Canada is the greatest doctor on earth. . . . Is this Canada, or Paradise? . . . Oh, my friends. . . . Ah, my brothers. . . ." He kept it up all week, did James Ramsay MacDonald. Canadians, pleased, flattered, responded with such hospitable fervor that at last the Prime Minister of Great Britain mock-seriously cried: "Your kindness has been like that of the penguin, which stifles its young on account of its maternal love. I put in a plea . . . that your feasting may be restricted . . . tempered by charity to the delighted victim of your generosity." As he prepared to sail from Quebec, to reach London as near...
Other Ottawa keynotes: He assured the Dominions that they would all be represented at the Five Power Naval Parley in London next January (TIME, Oct. 21). He rejoiced that during the week Japan, Italy and France had joined the U. S. in accepting invitations to the parley unconditionally. He promised on returning to London to communicate soon with Tokyo, Paris and Rome "in the same free and open way" as with President Hoover...