Word: whats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The delay is entirely our fault," said he enigmatically, "not his." What "Uncle Arthur" meant, what every M. P. and most well-informed Londoners knew, was that the delay was really the fault of His Majesty the King-Emperor. Stubbornly, and to the huge embarrassment of his Labor Government, George...
On the 27th birthday of Prince George, last week, his comptroller, Major Ulick Alexander, sought to calm public uneasiness at the fact that for some weeks the precise whereabouts of H. R. H. have not been generally known. After asserting that Prince George had been "staying at Sunningdale and devoting...
"Tiens, Messieurs!" he cried with an engaging smile, "ne tirez pas au pianiste! Don't shoot the piano player! Il fait de son mieux. He's doing the best he can. That, gentlemen," he added confidentially to his somewhat mystified hearers, "is an American argument. That is what...
"Whew!" Wasp-waisted little President Chiang Kai-shek of China made a proclamation last week which resembled nothing so much as a long shrill "Whew!" The President was voicing his relief at his success as a field-marshal in beating off and vanquishing, at least for a time, the armies...
Godsend. The consuls of Britain, France, Japan, Germany and the U. S. who set out in a special train last fortnight to investigate conditions in the recent Russo-Chinese battle area in Manchuria (TIME, Dec. 23) chuffed back to Harbin last week, having been refused permission to visit the area...