Word: interims
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...have been liable to fall at any moment; but there was no good reason why last week's crisis should not have been delayed till after Christmas. President von Hindenburg recognized this fact, instructing Dr. Wilhelm Marx who resigned as Chancellor last week to carry on ad interim. Thus by a comfortable and quite orthodox German stratagem the Herr President was able to free himself from weighty cares at Yuletide and play Kris Kringle to his grandchildren...
...stayed skeptical, with reports of the lusty brat's [Galahad's] activities constantly reaching the court. She dismissed Lancelot, who thereupon went mad, and she never bade him return until her life was at stake before the perfectly accurate charges of jealous and mighty Sir Meliagrance. The interim was Elaine's one happy season. When Lancelot was found in the forest and brought, bound, into young Galahad's new bloodhound kennels, she nursed the grizzled giant back to sanity. Galahad, who grew to rival his father at arms, kept him at her castle for several years...
...investigating commission, as envisaged in Article 213 of the Versailles Treaty. 2) The instances of German failure to disarm cited in the Foch report will be settled by negotiation among the Powers, and should this fail will be referred to the Council of the League of Nations. 3) Ad interim all work on the German forts along the Polish frontier shall stop. 4) The present Allied military commissioners in Germany will be permitted to remain, although reduced in numbers, as "technical experts" attached to the Allied legations in Berlin...
...wearing evening clothes over boxing tights is one method, and Mr. Tunney found that constant use has dulled its aptitude. Doubtless he will new get a more supple lawyer, one versed in such acrobatics as getting away with an improper thing in a perfectly proper manner. But in the interim there are no "fistic exhibitions", and the champion is left to reflect bitterly on the inconstancy of fortune. No one--except perhaps Mr. Dempsey -- will blame Mr. Tunney for giving birth to the blues...
Chivalry. Prince Eitel Friedrich, second son of Wilhelm II, resigned last week as Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of St. John of Malta. Prince Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Grand Master ad interim, accepted the Prince's resignation with the following eulogy: "Your Royal Highness' resignation is accepted because our Grand Master must be 'as white as the lilies of the field [and Prince Eitel has just divorced sensationally his wife (TIME, Nov. 1)]. .-. . Your honor is unstained; your chivalry alone . . . prompted your decision...