Word: maneuverable
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Going on was an attempt by Lord High Chancellor Sankey to ease through Parliament a seemingly innocuous bill creating two new Lord Justices and empowering Viscount Sankey to name the presidents of the two Appeals Courts. Stormed Baron Hewart: '"Such an office is unknown to the Constitution and the...
To hatch all this out of the innocuous King's Speech, the technical maneuver was employed of having that cherub-faced Tory fire-eater Mr. Winston (''Winnie") Churchill propose an amendment in language which in fact was a polemic. Clarioned "Winnie" Churchill: "The great new fact that...
Outstanding among the Freshmen was W. J. Lourie, Jr., who won a hotly contested game from Coggan on the forty-second move. The game began with a Vienna opening and culminated in a neat maneuver which won Mr. Coggan's queen.
Third Race. The course was 30 miles, 15 with the wind and 15 against it. Endeavour rounded the halfway mark with a 6½-min. lead. An unfortunate tack by Endeavour, a lucky puff of wind for Rainbow, enabled the Vanderbilt boat first to catch up with Endeavour then to...
Foamy bones in their fresh grey teeth, 90 U. S. men-o'-war rolled out of the sunswept Gulf of Gonaives last week, skirted the heat-hazy shores of Haiti, furrowed their way up toward the Atlantic Coast. Far out in the empty sea, bos'ns' whistles...