Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally last week the delegates achieved sufficient unity to issue a joint mimeographed statement-the first released since the Second Dawes Committee assembled. Though couched in the most general terms, it was well calculated to quiet fears that the new Bank of International Settlement will prove a dangerous competitor of other banks and bond houses. "... The institution to be created," read the statement, "would strictly avoid competition with existing commercial and investment banking institutions and would consider it to be of prime necessity to act in close co-operation with existing central banks of issue. In fact, the bank would...
Thus for the first time official cognizance was taken of the King's mental state, a subject that has been worrying official circles for the past month. The King's physical improvement is all that could be expected. He eats and sleeps well. He walks, leaning heavily on two nurses, from one room to another, and sits by an open window for hours, watching the horses exercise on Bognor sands. But he does not seem able to concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes. It was said that this is the reason the Prince of Wales has paid...
...unofficial despatch from London, "is usually just after six in the evening. In the best periods the King realizes his weakness and insists on being treated as an extreme invalid. In his other moods, however, he does not recognize the situation and expects to be treated as a well person, which increases the difficulties of the doctors and nurses...
...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...
Another legendary deity who may well have watched the sanguinary progress of Mexicans, last week, is Xochiquetzal (see map), ancient goddess of both licit and illicit love, the patroness of mothers, and especially the tutelary deity of women who accompany and gratify soldiers marching to battle. So little has Mexico changed through all the ages, that last week much of the rough camp work and cooking for both rebels and federals was done by such patriotic women...