Word: interims
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Viceroy. As the son and heir of the aged Viscount Halifax (87-year-old Groom of the Bedchamber to Edward of Wales), Mr. E. F. L. Wood has need of his interim title "Lord Irwin" only during his viceroyship** or until his father dies. His choice as Viceroy is regarded as felicitous in the extreme, because his grandfather, the first Viscount Halifax, was raised to that estate for his success (as "Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India") in completely reorganizing the government of India after it was taken over from the old East India Co. Since Sir Charles...
Wilde's imagination was never "fired," but of all stimulants to its lucubration the Orient was most potent. The masque concerns a charming maiden, Mah Phru, who consoled King Meng Beng while he awaited the coming of his Cingalese bride from Ceylon, bearing him two sons in the interim. When he returned to his palace she followed as a white peacock, watched her sons grow up, adored Meng Beng mutely. When he was dying, she revived him, at the cost of her own life, with the aid of "the only magician the world knows?Love." The properties include: howdahed elephants...
...second question: is it important that the United States give its support to the Court? First, I must say that it is less important today than when President Harding and Secretary Hughes proposed this almost three years ago. For during this interim the Court has got on its feel. It has succeeded in entrenching itself. It has won prestige and confidence among the lawyers of all countries. It has acquitted itself well. It has found itself. Its future new seems secure. It does not lack cases, it does not lack friends, it does not lack funds. Forty-eight other nations...
...interim before the enforcement of the new law a surtax, in addition to the present uniform 5% tariff, shall be levied as follows: 5% on ordinary goods, 20% on luxuries, 30% on wine and tobacco...
Twice (TIME, May 28, 1923, Mar. 3, 1924) Presidents Harding or Coolidge granted him interim appointments (appointments good till Congress reconvenes). Twice returning senators booted Mr. Cohen out of office. About a year ago the Senate grudgingly confirmed him as Sheriff and Comptroller of New Orleans...