Word: bested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Liberal Leader David Lloyd George bleated: "This measure contains some of the worst and none of the best features of Socialism." The Clydeside Laborites, who want the Government to nationalize the coal industry and pay high wages (if necessary out of the taxpayers' pockets), were frankly furious. The vote which followed was the most important since the MacDonald Cabinet took office...
This he set to music and retitled "Good Morrow! A simple carol for His Majesty's happy recovery." It was far from simple. Sir Edward Elgar's best known composition is "Pomp and Circumstance." It is a favorite cinema overture, its ponderous measures boom weekly from radio loud speakers...
...Tiens, Messieurs!" he cried with an engaging smile, "ne tirez pas au pianiste! Don't shoot the piano player! Il fait de son mieux. He's doing the best he can. That, gentlemen," he added confidentially to his somewhat mystified hearers, "is an American argument. That is what they used to say in American frontier towns. Voyons, Messieurs! With what do you reproach me? The only two laws which have been passed since my Government came into office [TIME, Nov. 11] had the support of five-sixths of the Chamber. Shall I make another argument...
...Greeks plebiscited 758,742 for the Republic and only 325,322 for gorgeous Georgios, still one of the best-dressed men in Europe. He now lives in London, partly on the bounty of George V with whom he often dines, week ends...
...Best argument for a pool wishing to move a stock up is talk of "secret processes and patents." Last February the International Combustion Engineering Corp., world's leading manufacturer of boilers, automatic stokers, ash handlers and power plant devices, opened a new plant at New Brunswick, N. J. Function of this plant was to use a newly acquired foreign patent for the distillation of coal, rendering from the fuel valuable gas byproducts, light oil, and a powdered semi-coke for use in steam power plants...