Word: departing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parliament. No King, under present-day conditions, would attempt to ignore or override the advice of his ministers, unless the act were incontrovertibly taken in the interests of the people, and such a situation is more than unlikely. Nothing in the present hypothetical situation presupposes that King George will depart from the strictly constitutional practice of demanding ministerial advice, if a dissolution becomes necessary. The debate between Messrs. Asquith and MacDonald was, therefore, largely academic...
...Cercle Francaise will this year depart from its annual custom of limiting its activities in its fall productions by presenting three one-act plays in Brattle Hall some time during the month of January...
...German industrial magnates (Herren Stinnes, Thyssen, Klöcckner, Fickler, Rausch, Hubert) for control of factories and mines, and thus secure reparations to cover the cost of reconstruction in the devastated areas. These negotiations, however, fell through principally because Chancellor Stresemann, exercising pressure upon the industrialists, declined to depart from his standpoint that the Ruhr occupation is illegal and that whatever the French have seized from that territory must be placed to the credit of reparations- as there could be no question of paying France and Belgium for an illegal occupation. When the Chancellor's letter was shown...
...address them. Mr. Asquith refused. Thereupon the students '"kidnapped" him, and took him to the University. He accepted the situation with good grace; made a witty speech in which he said he was "glad to see such signs of vigorous youth and vigorous adolescence"; was then allowed to depart...
...Beatrice Audley (Emily Stevens) when she gave a former friend the cold English eye just because the friend had eloped to Kamchatka with a bachelor lover. So he decided to teach Beatrice a lesson in love-and proved such an interesting teacher that Beatrice was all ready to depart with him unmarried, when he finally produced a license, remarking that he had really meant to marry her all the while and had just wanted to improve her sense of charity by his little trick. A genuine idea lurks in this otherwise ordinary comedy, and Emily Stevens' gorgeous amorosity makes...