Word: asceticism
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Once called by his friends "the Jewish Hamlet," because of his lean, ascetic face, Mr. Nathan now boasts a growing waistline that causes him to toy with the idea of substituting sailing for such strenuous pastimes as fencing and tennis. He will no longer play the cello, for his professional...
General Sadao Araki is Japan's champion sabre-rattler and No. 1 Militarist, but Japanese like to point out in his favor that he is personally frail-looking, mild-mannered, small, ascetic, "a mystic." Araki himself reconciles these contradictions in his character with his favorite maxim, "Be greedy only...
Finally came the laugh-provoking quip for which the Rumanian Senators were waiting. They all understood juicy Jorga to be referring to ascetic Bachelor Julius Maniu when he crushingly concluded: "People who do not sin usually do not sin because they are not able!"
In the oblong, dimly Gothic House of Lords, a furious drama unrolled between two Empire characters each fit to be popped straight into Gilbert & Sullivan. One was the Lord Chief Justice of England, tiny, rolypoly Baron Hewart. The other was the Lord High Chancellor, tall, severe, ascetic Viscount Sankey. Distinctly...
Three years ago President Hoover and that pallid, ascetic German Chancellor, Dr. Heinrich Brüning, were both pursuing the same policy: Deflation. That winter German prices fell 10%. hammered down -so the German people believe-by Dr. Brüning's implacable ''Price Dictator," Dr. Karl...