Word: worde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year-old Badman Nannery. A year ago he and his pal Edward ("Snake") Ryan escaped from Sing Sing by clambering through a transom in the prison kitchen, scaling the wall, swimming away down the Hudson river. Ryan was recaptured and returned to Sing Sing. From the underworld came word that Nannery has sworn to get Ryan out again...
Gilbert, Robert or Oswald-Oswald, Robert or Gilbert? For months political observers have played a counting-out game with these names trying to guess who was to succeed Sir Esme Howard as British Ambassador to Washington. Last week came abrupt word from London that neither Oswald, Robert or Gilbert, but Ronald is It. Sir Oswald Mosley, famed Socialist baronet, remained Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir Robert Vansittart, secretary to Prime Minister MacDonald and favorite of the counters-out, was appointed Head of the Foreign Office as Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Professor Gilbert Murray, violent...
...They say the King looks younger!"- breathlessly loyal Britons passed the word. Thousands stood huddled along London curbstones to see and judge for themselves. Beloved George V was coming home at last to Buckingham Palace after his long convalescence at the rustic royal estate of Sandringham. At spick-and-span King's Cross Station a long red carpet had been spread. Baron Byng of Vimy stood stiff and medal-spangled at one end. As Chief of London's Police he was alert and anxious. This time) the route which Royalty would take to the Palace had not been...
...Pronounce the Word!" It was now four hours past midnight. The grand debate narrowed to an issue?and what an issue! Some Deputies of the Left (thoroughgoing anticlericals) demanded to know "if the Government will pronounce the word 'laicism'" in connection with an obscure educational bill totally extraneous to the debate...
...snapped M. Tardieu, the Government would not "pronounce 'laicisms'"? and suddenly he demanded a vote of confidence, staked his whole political future shrewdly on a word. The shrewdness lay in that he had neatly chosen an issue on which the Government could not fail to command the Catholic vote...