Word: worded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commercialization" is a mysterious word which correspondents have been bandying for years. It is used as a convenient abbreviation for the prolix idea that Germany's state debt to the Allies might be transformed into a private debt, by selling German bonds in the world market and using the cash realized to pay off the state debt at once, leaving the new private debt to be paid off in the course of years. Thus a lofty obligation would be "commercialized" into a vulgar loan. The advantage to the Governments concerned would be that, if Germany should default, mere private...
...seven years old he is a handy man in the house, with chores to do, which he really does. Then take the little girls. . . . At the age when her little English cousin is having her hands washed for her and her frock buttoned, Mamie is promoted-note the word-to setting the table and tidying the odds and ends after meals...
...soon as we heard about our name 'Bayreuth' being brought into connection with this, we wrote to Mr. Blumental strickly forbidding him to call his company anything like Bayreuth! He sent us a very old dirty looking visiting card with his name and the words 'German Opera Company' to reassure us that he was not misusing the word Bayreuth. This Prospectus again shows us that this Grand German Opera Company is working with our name. How can they do so thinking of the facts, that they have not our orchestra, not our chorus, none...
...China is engaged in disbanding its total armies of 1,500,000 men; and Marshal Feng, as the Nationalist War Minister, cannot very well keep his own superb force together while the others disband, without some excellent excuse. Last week he seemed to have found it in a word: SHANTUNG...
Some stayed to mutter about a Booth promise broken. From the Booth camp had come word the previous day that no legal action would be taken. Some went away with the feeling of having been tricked into impotency. Lieutenant Commissioner Haines went into the adjoining room, lay down, and, in the torture of a sudden attack of acute indigestion, died...