Word: concoction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light chaser "The Diplomats" is offered. Therein Clark and McCullough scatter their drollery managing to concoct several good lines and comic situations...
...elective system is a Jeffersonian principle, but there are salutary limitations. One of the chief pleasures of college dons is to concoct examination papers. They are the last persons to refuse such tests. This aloofness, this excessive individualism, is confined, there is good ground for hoping, to the malignants of the Charles.... Tabulation will reveal the clothes philosophy of our young barbarians, the outward expression of their minds. Doubtless undergraduates of the college now proving itself so unworthy of them will rebuke its want of comity, its rebellion against one of the noblest forms of sociological effort and the spirit...
Though not even Queen Victoria could concoct a more terrifying threat than this-that she might abdicate-the new series of letters is starred with innumerable dynamic and forceful passages, many urging that the most truculently repressive measures be taken against natives in India, Africa, Egypt or Ireland, where "the more one does for the Irish the more unruly and ungrateful they seem...
...Shanghai; but he has recently been chosen the civil and military head of the "Nationalist Government of China," a group of politicians and generals with headquarters at Nanking, nearby. Last week this group were preparing to hold, early in January, a plenary session of the Nationalist party congress?to concoct war plans. Since there was danger, however, that some of the minority delegates might slip away, thus making it impossible for the leaders to obtain a quorum, the military police of Nanking were instructed, last week, to detain forcibly any delegate who sought to leave the city...
...feudal superior of the Shantung Chang. The two Changs were informed that they must release Mme. Borodin, her couriers, her baggage, and the S. S. Pamiat Lenina. But Mme. Borodin was not released. To rescue her, Russia must send much gold, or many men, offer some great concession, or concoct some really potent threat. "Mrs. Grosberg," Chinese thought, is likely to prove the most valuable hostage of the whole Chinese civil...