Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last action of the conference was to hear an appeal for the establishment of an international code of standards for airplane manufacture and certificates of airworthiness. Qualifications of those countries that belong to the International Convention for Air Navigation are fairly uniform. But the U.S. does not belong to that convention, and its lack of accord hampers the export of our planes, parts and accessories...
...considering applications for employment in our factories or for membership in our syndicates we shall exclude, without pity or false humanitarianism, all applicants who belong to peasant families...
...carpenter, the fishermen, the doctor, the pompous Consul. And Oliver, swashbuckling sailor returned legless from a storm at sea, would no doubt lose his sweetheart to the steady carpenter. But Petra married Oliver in spite of the gossip, and bore five children. Of course the brown-eyed boys might belong to Consul Johnsen, wealthy shipper, and the youngest was no doubt fathered by the lynx-eyed Lawyer-but the Doctor, who fostered this gossip by certifying Oliver's sterility, bore a time-honored grudge against both shipper and lawyer. So Oliver continued squabbling, capitalizing his crippled state, trespassing...
...nailed the deceptive use of the Gompers quotation and kept his whole reply on that political level. Instead of elaborating a politico-economic theory, he simply said: "There is a very wide differ ence between public ownership and public control of water power sites, which in the first instance belong to the people them selves, and the operation and ownership of a going business [e.g., railroads]." He defended his Prohibition proposal only by reiterating that it was oldtime Jeffersonian States-rights doctrine. He mocked Nominee Hoover with his own acceptance-speech phrase, "We shall use words to convey our meaning...
Rather more "literary" than the commercialized publisher and critic of the U. S., Mr. and Mrs. Woolf belong to a group of individualists who still take art seriously: Orient-student Arthur Waley (TIME, Aug. 27), Economist John Maynard Keynes, Biographer Lytton Strachey, esoteric Poet Osbert Sitwell, unique Author E. M. Forster. Many of these were at Cambridge together, have since formed the "Bloomsbury group," intermarrying, settling in adjacent houses, exciting themselves in common interests. Virginia Woolf is daughter to the Cambridge tutor and biographer Sir Leslie Stephen, sister-in-law to art critic Clive Bell, wife to Leonard Woolf, publisher...