Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result there are now four classes of Republicans: 1) the few who were opposed to the bonus or uncommitted-they shouted: " Vive Mellon! "2) Those who were promised to the bonus but would like to change their allegiance-they exclaimed : " Lesser taxes, yes, but a bonus, too!" 3) Those progressives and radicals who were both sworn to the bonus and opposed to lowering the income taxes of the rich- they cried: " A bas Mellon! Bonus! Bonus! Bonus! " 4) The tacticians who feared to oppose the third group (progressives and radicals) for fear they might attempt legislative sabotage...
...political orator. He waged battle for causes. He fought duels. Now he is publisher, journalist, novelist. His publishing firm has published in the form of cheap little paper books practically all of the world's masterpieces for the benefit of the Spanish people. Publishing on a grand scale-yes!-for Ibanez is just that -grandiose. Life for him, I fancy, is a brilliant gesture...
Secretary of State Hughes, called upon by Lord Curzon, offered to let American financial experts "sit in" on the solution of Europe's reparations problem (TiME, Nov. 5). Premier Poincare grumbled "Yes"? and added as an afterthought: " We have no liking for your suggestion." The result is that the whole proposal may come to naught. But meanwhile the question has been translated into terms of national politics by the group of League of Nations irreconcilables...
...Poincare reluctantly grumbled : "Yes, we'll help...
...think: "Why, yes-I guess I will." You remember, vaguely, bookplates you have known-heavy engravings of armorial bearings in large volumes bound in calf-cute, little bookplates, nauseatingly quaint, with florid mock-Old-English lettering, " From among Ye Bookes of Cleo. S. Eiswasser "-sentences written with a damp pencil on the title pages of schoolbooks ("If my name you wish to see-," "If this book should chance to roam," etc.)- and shudder. Then, perhaps, you happen to go to such an exhibition of bookplates as was recently held at the New York Public Library, and realize that there...