Word: chequered
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...bought the famed Codex Sinaiticus from the Soviet Government (TIME, Jan. 1 et seq.) and His Majesty's Government merely agreed to pay such part of the £100,000 as could not be raised by public subscription. The debate last week was provoked by announcement that the Ex chequer will have...
...fell to the tracks of a New York subway; Most Rev, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Cannes where he is being treated by King's Physician Lord Dawson of Penn ; Charles Spencer Chaplin, in Singapore, of dengue fever; Britain's Chancellor of the Ex chequer Neville Chamberlain, of gout following lumbago ; Representative William Robert Wood, of Indiana, 71-year-old chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee, critically exhausted from overwork on the House Appropriations Committee ; Henry Lewis Stimson, confined in his rented Swiss villa near Geneva with laryngitis...
...Hoover's pressure-putter. "I am charged with the diplomatic side of the question." said he. "Negotiations may be necessary with certain powers." On July 17 Pressure-Putter MacDonald will go to Berlin, will return the pressure-putting call of German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning on Scot MacDonald at "Chequer." (TIME, June 15). Thus world public opinion will be mobilized against expected French opposition...
...This elegant British adjective, meaning "sick as a result of gross intemperance in eating or drinking," was publicly applied to Mr. Snowden in the House of Commons fortnight ago by his immediate predecessor as Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Right Honorable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, M. P., onetime Lord Rector Aberdeen University...
Your exile is blest with all fate can bestow-But mine has been chequer'd with many a woe! Yet though diff'rent our fortunes, our thoughts