Word: worde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greater harm!" Sir Austen seemed actually beside himself with grief and shame. "Bilkers!" his French friends had been called "Bilkers! !" As other Conservatives followed the Foreign Secretary, all flaying Mr. Snowden and all greatly exaggerating his slip, he became positively livid with rage. "I retract not a word! I refuse to apologize!" he shrilled, emphasizing his exclamations with cane thumps. "I am sufficient of an Englishman not to be content to see my country and my people bled white for the benefit of other countries far more prosperous than ourselves. You are all just electioneering, just tub-thumping!" Impressively...
...story of a girl who leaves a beaten playwright to cast her lot with a successful author. That is all; yet in its four acts the entire drama of the struggle for expression through the written word is told. The present players do not rise to the play's heights, perhaps, but, on the other hand, they do not seek to make of the play a high-brow holiday...
...clock ticked, as Edward of WaIes leaned over it to catch every word, Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill fired what are evidently to be three big Conservative election guns by announcing: 1) Abolition of the betting tax, 2) Drastic cuts in the taxes on tea and, 3) On beer...
...Trade between Canada and the United States is the greatest trade that exists between any two countries in the world [see p. n]. . . . We have the word of those in authority in the neighboring Republic that there are to be certain measures introduced at a special session of Congress. An important measure, we are led to believe, is a measure relating to farm relief. Another measure relates to certain limited adjustments of the tariff; I think that is the expression which has been officially used. . . . "I say that, with the knowledge that we have before us at the present time...
...days Tsar Boris was his usual cheerful self in Vienna, waiting for word to proceed to Rome. But no word came. Instead came General Wolkoff, glum and forbidding. The Vatican had not agreed to any compromise, it appeared. Unless all offspring of the union were brought up as Roman Catholics the Pope would not sanction or bless the marriage, and Princess Giovanna would automatically become excommunicate...