Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first performance of "Primerose," the 34th annual play of the Cercle Francais, will take place in the Copley Theatre on tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. The play, which is by Gaston de Caillavet and Robert de Flers, is to be given for the benefit of the American Committee for Devastated France. The second performance will be given in the same place on Friday afternoon...
...would seem as though the hardships of which American university and college professors complain are not a peculiar product of the American climate. The glaring discrepancy between the ever-rising cost of necessaries and a stationary remuneration for services recognized to be of the highest importance to the community is a world phenomenon...
Still, according to the same testimony, the French college teacher, however ill-favored, is fortunate above his American colleague. During the war, we are told, professors in French secondary and upper schools were granted an increase of salary amounting to 105 per cent...
This may should like Eldorado to the American instructor; but the gratitude of the French universitaire is impaired by his knowledge that a factory inspector serving under the government has obtained an advance of 130 per cent, and a supervisor of weights and measures, another minor official, one of 180 per cent...
...Little did they think that a senator of the United States would place his party before his cup. But there are whisperings abroad that those same thirst-inspiring senators have "a jug 'neath the bough" carefully stored away. What better argument than this on the evils of the American government could any self-suspecting bolshevist employ...