Word: troublous
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...Troublous years since 1920 have shaken down eleven German cabinets; but these seven years have buffeted in vain Dr. Otto Gessler, continuously Minister of National Defense...
Scurrilous persons who might have called Il Duce a Christmas niggard forebore to do so, last week, when he despatched 300 tons of food supplies and clothing to gladden impoverished citizens of Albania, troublous Adriatic ally of Italy...
...true that one American in Hankow was spat upon during the troublous times in January, and it is possible that your reporter has erred in confusing this incident with the one recorded in your journal. But, although there is no doubt an implied insult in the act of expectoration upon one's person, yet surely this is a matter less grave than the flinging of dung, at least so far as the recipient is concerned...
When Tarhata Kiram, flapper Philippine princess, married a Moro chieftain, newspapers printed columns, made sure that the U. S. knew. Last week, other things far more troublous to Governor General Leonard Wood, claimed his attention...
...Troublous Experiment. Four phases have divided the Norwegian prohibition experiment: 1914-17? prohibition instituted by decree as a measure of War-time economy and finally enacted as a law by parliament; 1917-19?growing urban resentment against the 12% limit, culminating in a national referendum (1919) which upheld prohibition 489,660 to 305,241; 1919-23?demands by Spain and Portugal that the wines of those countries be admitted to Norway, were backed up by those nations with the temporary erection of a tariff wall "prohibiting" the sale of Norwegian fish to their nationals, an act which...