Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...session began with Pilsudski and Valdemaras bristling silently at one another across the Council's horseshoe table, while the proposed details of settlement were droningly read. Suddenly Pilsudski interrupted in a hoarse voice: "Gentlemen, I have not heard the word peace mentioned. I came here to hear that word. If I do not hear it, I will return to a place where the word war may be heard...
...word in the margin here is undecipherable. Eiseman claims it is "yepl" but just below is a notation: "No, 'millennium'. Frederick Barbarossa" Other editors have thought it an epithet for the cuckoo
...they have flayed him for pursuing a com mon practice: that of allegedly accepting party contributions from commoners who were raised to the peerage during his term as Prime Minister (1916-22). Because this charge has been shrewdly ignored by Mr. George, a new one was started recently. By word of mouth it was alleged that his private purse has been swollen from his secret party fund...
...ages teachers have viewed with alarm, nodded with sadness, reported with regret. At New Haven, Conn., last week precedent and an electric light globe were shattered when an elert candidate for the Yale Daily News saw bad luck attend the careless exuberance of his teacher, used the printed word to tattle...
...youth upon London and at 21 obtained a situation as a solicitor's clerk. Ten years later his first novel, A Man From the North, was published and, as he puts it, yielded profit sufficient for a new hat. A prodigious worker, he was soon evolving the printed word at a tremendous rate, Vanguard being the 62nd volume to bear his name. His best-known and perhaps most successful effort is The Old Wives' Tale...