Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similarity in the contents of the two magazines as ours is edited to help people get on in the world through articles that are written to help people meet various problems in life. Yet we do not wish for any occasion for confusion and would appreciate a brief note in your valuable publication about our Progress magazine also...
Last week the Egyptian Government reacted by sending a sharp note to Angora, demanded an apology from Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi who used to be an accoucheur. Expert at handling both excited women and excited governments, Dr. Rushdi suavely replied that there had been no insult. "The banquet hall was somewhat overheated," he alibied, "and President Kemal merely invited His Excellency the Egyptian Minister to remove his fez for his own greater comfort...
Home in London, ailing Scot MacDonald went to work on a new note. Again diplomacy sped on greased skids. Ambassador Lindsay at Washington received the new note late at night, called Secretary Stimson for a midnight conference just as he was about to get into bed. The new note was simply a tactful revision of the old. In effect it said: "The U. S. is entitled to regard this Dec. 15 payment in any light it pleases; but we reserve the right to hope that the settlement question will be re-opened and that this payment may then be credited...
...course, the intention of their [the British] note to touch upon any matter affecting the constitutional position of the U. S. Government. Their note, therefore, should be read solely as related to their own position...
...musings, this one had an external stimulus and efficient cause, though the upshot is as the spirit listeth. For the Vagabond has been casually reading some minor English poets, men whose names are known to all, their works to none, or whose immortality is frailly linked to a note in a textbook, a piping lyric in an old anthology. The thought came to him that all these men, whom we read now with a bored condescension, were once the laureates of a period or a nation, whose fame was certain. Nearly every poet we admire today had rivals who overpeered...