Word: worded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tactful were the proceedings. The word was whispered to Europeans not to appear in glittering finery which might dim the effect of Signatory Kellogg's sober apparel...
...0nomatopoetic French word for uproar, hurly-burly...
Such, at least, was the theory advanced in a 5,000-word statement issued last week by General Antonio Rios Zertuchg, Mexican Chief of Police, official reply to insinuations implicating Mexico's President in General Obregon's murder...
...word, Count Keyserling scans the peoples of Europe, one by one, and seeks wittily to show that those are most nearly nitwits who are most ready to shout: "My country, may she ever be right! But my country, right or wrong...
...Wolfe Michaels, who is the kin they love to touch, decides that they, the other offshoots of his stock, are worthless. So does David Lubin, his elegant nephew who arrives from Australia. The clan has become decadent and these two are about to go bankrupt, for some reason, when word arrives that another and hitherto forgotten relative has died in the Antipodes, leaving them a fortune. Thus convinced that blood is a bit thicker than water, the supposedly comic relatives shake hands all around and the play is over...