Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left the U. S. entirely free to divorce the World Court instantly at any time after the final diplomatic marriage takes place. The marriage is not yet, the signature of Attaché Moffat was a mere betrothal. There remains U. S. Senate ratification. Washington wiseacres wagered that another year would pass before this is achieved...
...What is the [Labor] government going to do about all this? If we had Hoovers in every country, the problem [of Disarmament] would be solved...
...safety's sake, no advance news was given of the route that the King and Queen would take in their ride from Quirinal Palace to Vatican Palace. The huge oval of St. Peter's Square was kept free of spectators. From dawn on the day appointed, crowds of pious, enthusiastic Romans jammed the sidewalks of every street through which the royal pair could possibly pass, whiled away the long hours playing lottery games. Enterprising peddlers did a rushing business selling envelopes containing numbers shrewdly dubbed the "favorites" of the Pope, the King, the Queen. Many a Roman policeman...
Though denying that the boycott was or would be successful in stopping the sale of the Dakin biography, Publisher Maxwell Evarts Perkins of Scribner's admitted that "the attempted censorship has seriously affected sale of the book in four-fifths of the bookstores of the country. It should have sold three times as well...
...half-mile intervals. Draughtsman Ferriss transfers this obvious, romantic vision into a series of pleasing, misty drawings made appealing by the use of breath-taking perspectives and powerful light effects. Practical critics observe that the scheme is ephemeral and utilizes such tricks as leaving out windows which, if represented, would convey the proper scale and give a realistic effect to Architect Ferriss's momentous masses, but would make these masses seem much less momentous and startlingly visionary. The drawings are accompanied by a lyrical text which breaks out into blank verse at times and ends with an epilog...