Word: man
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explained: "I fell off my mule-had a few too many swigs-and cut my haid. Next day I went away. That's all they was to it." Some witnesses felt that he looked "a lot like Connie." The girl's avowal that he was not her man was corroborated by others who knew him well...
...great man thus thumbnail-sketched was Gustav Stresemann who died of a form of apoplexy (TIME, Oct. 14). Thumbnailer: Viscount D'Abernon, patrician first Ambassador of Great Britain to the German Republic, writing in the January issue of Foreign Affairs, scholarly grey-bound U. S. quarterly. Of Stresemann and himself the Viscount writes: "For six years we were in almost daily intercourse. ... I believe that no two men in similar positions were ever more frank with one another or more free...
...fault of His Majesty the King-Emperor. Stubbornly, and to the huge embarrassment of his Labor Government, George V refused to shake the hand of any representative of Soviet Russia, for it was the Soviet Government which decreed the assassination in 1918 of a brown-bearded, nervous little man known to the world as His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II, Tsar of All the Russias, known still to George V of Britain as "Dear Cousin Nicky...
Such, fairly and frankly set forth by an honest, candid man, is the train of thought by which 99 Britons out of 100 have arrived at the belief that it is right for them to have a larger navy than the U. S., which has so many less merchant ships and colonies to protect than they...
...collect a head tax on their woolly polls. At Itu, Nigeria, the local British river steamer was chased by tax-indignant blacks in war canoes. "With regard to the women," concluded Dr. Shiels, "His Majesty's Government is informed that they were encouraged in their provocation by a man who told them that British troops would never fire on persons of their...