Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that," said Commodore Trunnion. "Why not?" asked his wife. "Because I'm not mad," said the Commodore. "Prove it," said Mrs. Trunnion. And this he could not do. Instead, he put her off his ship, made her walk the plank in fact, and went back to his old way of living with Hatchways, his mate, and Fawcett, an able seaman...
Striking the tribune with clenched fist the Prime Minister went...
...They kept making totally inadequate offers." continued Chancellor Snowden and went on to tell how "the quiet, plaintive Adachi" came to him one day to confide secretly that he would not actually stand against Britain and was only sitting in with the French, Belgians and Italians "as an observer." This blazing indiscretion amounted to revealing that Japan?the little naval ally of Britain?had been ready all along to double-cross the Continental Powers, several of whose offers to Snowden were countersigned by Dr. Adachi...
...darkest hour before the dawn. The room was insufferably hot. It all seemed over. Somebody moved for adjournment for ten minutes to give us a chance to get a breath of air. We broke up into little groups. The British remained in the conference room. The others went outside. Then the bargaining began...
Congress staged a vastly different annual convention at Belfast, Ireland. Hard-bitten Ben Tillett made another speech. The years have brought power and respectability to British Labor. There were no Russian Communists at last week's meeting. One of the Trades Union's two gold watches went to a Mr. W. J. Rooney of the highly respectable American Federation of Labor. And Ben Tillett's speech was as conservative as a bowler hat. With an ideology that would have done credit to a Director of the Bank of England, erstwhile firebrand Tillett pleaded for protective tariffs, increased...