Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boatloads of seasick reporters tossed on the grey waters of St. George's Channel waiting for news. Long after it was apparent that there would be no news, the Rodney, with half a gale still heaving her about and with seaplanes flying watch overhead, cast wreaths of white lilies on the sea, fired a salute, steamed away...
Refreshed by three days of comparative quiet, chunky, white-chinned Raymond Poincare, Prime Minister of France, stepped quickly to the rostrum, of the Chamber of Deputies last week. It was his final chance to convince the truculent Chamber that they must ratify the Mellon- Berenger debt agreement, a matter upon which not only France's commercial credit but the future of the Poincare government depended. M. Poincare's step was confident. Since the Chamber adjourned the week before a new weapon, a new persuader, had come into his hands. Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, had announced that...
They hung a green flag with a green star in a white square in the Louis XVI room of Manhattan's Hotel Manger last week. About 150 delegates gathered there and chatted in a language which no bellboy, waiter, clerk could understand. The men wore green neckties, the women green enamel stars. It was the 22nd annual congress of the Esperanto Association of North America, the organization for fostering and teaching the "universal lan-guage" which "promises sacred peace...
...White Cloud. Fantasy and symbolism, wherein 27 war orphans find their fathers all gold-clothed on a white cloud. Says a father: "Back home the village thinks that [war is] all bugles and flowers...
...became a journalist in Budapest; 1897 I wrote a short story; 1900 I wrote a novel; 1902 I became a playwright at home; 1908, I became a playwright abroad; 1914 I became a war correspondent; 1916 I became a playwright once more; 1918 my hair turned snow-white; 1925 I should like to be a law student at Geneva once more...