Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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The reference is to the top of the Fifth avenue buses, and the heart of the matter is tobacco. Henceforth it is not to be the open top, nor quite the closed top, but a sort of semi-hemi-preferential top with the two left-hand seats and the three...
Is there any use in arguing? There is no use in arguing. Either you smoke and are blessed, or you don't smoke and resort to plebiscites. Suppose smoke, fire and ashes do get into non-smokers' eyes? Where there is smoke there must naturally be fire, cinders, grit, stains...
Well, five seats are better than none. As good citizens, we submit in the interests of the wider, if not the larger, good. --New York Evening Post.
Since the Parliamentary elections in Greece, it has naturally been a foregone conclusion that the exiled Constantine would be recalled to the throne. The recent plebiscite has but put the stamp of public approval upon such a course. Constantine may now enter his country with assurance.
Whether he will have so much assurance when once he has arrived, is another question. England and France, much as they would like to keep him out of power because of his pro-German tendencies, can not or will not go to such an extremity in the race of the...