Word: impendingness
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*The Kiyoura Government went into office following the attempted assassination of the Prince Regent (TIME, Jan. 7). It was appointed by the Elder Statesmen and was always unpopular, holding power because of the impending wedding of the Prince Regent, a fact which earned for it the appellation "Imperial Wedding Cabinet...
It is a machine-made play, performed by actors in the best clothing dummy style. Robert Emmett Keane, the Reading man, characterized by Critic Hammond as a "straw-hat comedian," signalizes every impending wise crack with a lift of the katy.
Such a display of friendliness on the part of two supposedly hostile or unsympathetic groups would certainly have warmed the heart and cheered the soul of Carlyle, although he would have noted sourly that they foregathered merely to partake of food. Had he been present at that most unprecedented luncheon...
The second letter puts forward a point of view which is probably shared by many who attended the last fiery meeting of the Debating Union. The Military Science Department was assuredly not intended to be the subject of the debate, although some warning of the impending "coup d'etat" was...
The ladies of the harem were much alarmed over impending events. The Chief Eunuch, allegedly, refused food for three days.