Word: words
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attended by experts and flanked by 100 newsgatherers, the 14 Council members sat about the Council table (brought especially from Geneva) for four days. From the galleries half the grandees of Spain and members of the Diplomatic Corps, watched the proceedings. Only once were they treated to a sharp word skirmish...
Herr Stresemann uttered no word. Chairman Adatci of Japan had already persuaded the Council to accept unanimously a compromise minorities plan, having three main features: 1) The Council's subcommittee on Minorities shall make its proceedings public; 2) shall meet more often; 3) and in case of a world-shaking dispute shall have its members increased from three to four. Herr Stresemann's challenge was only a warning that Germany would consider this plan purely temporary...
...Champagne, on the other hand, must submit to indecent manipulations. To render it epileptic they dose it with candied sugar, tannin, brandy, alum. They mix it with other wines. They shake it. They set each bottle rump in air, and they oblige it to spit?and this word is a euphemism?the muck that has settled against the cork. . . . The manufacturers, in spite of all difficulties, finally conquer the undisciplined beverage. They stick a label on its belly, slap a gold or silver plaque on its head, and there it is ready to conquer the world...
Quite as brave as ex-Monk Freyden-berg was Pierre Pigeaire, a correspondent for the United Press. Alone, he traveled by motor, horse and foot 300 miles from the railhead at Marrakesh to the scene of the ambush, sent the first direct word of the battle. At Meknes base hospital Lieut. Briard. wounded in the first skirmish, told how he had lain behind a desert bush and watched his wounded comrades being stabbed to death by Moors...
...newspapers dwelt fondly on the word "filibuster" in describing the Curaçao fracas, harked back to Richard Harding Davis and O. Henry...