Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Abraham Lincoln in the nude appeared last week as a statuette at the Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan. Rough blobs of bronze compose a gaunt, strong figure of a rail splitter leaning on the haft of his axe, his head thrown backward in revery. The sculptor is Merton Clivette...
Paraguay is among the world's most backward lands. Her yearly exports and imports approximately balance at the trifling figure of $14,000,000. Rivers are the only important highways. The sole famed landed proprietor is Tex Rickard...
...lady of devastating chic and ophidian fascination, who looks forward to penthouses rather than backward at palazzos, is the Cadillac-Fleetwood Art Moderne, a sleek transformable cabriolet in aluminum, black, copper, snakewood...
Speaking on the subject "Cabbages and Kings" Dr. Erickson will talk on the conditions now existent in Albania, until recently one of the most backward countries in Europe. During his activity as an independent worker in this country for most of the past 20 years, he has had an opportunity to observe first hand, financial, agricultural, commercial, and political conditions...
Abyssinian Victory. Just two years ago it seemed that Italy and Britain were firmly leagued to assist each other in the joint commercial penetration of Abyssinia, backward Afric realm. Jointly the two great Powers brought pressure upon Regent Ras Taffari of Abyssinia to permit Italian exploitation of a railway and British construction of certain mighty water works for irrigating the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Smart, the Abyssinian Regent yielded momentarily, but subsequently made to the League of Nations a squa.wk so potent that British public opinion turned against the exploitation scheme? leaving in the lurch Benito Mussolini...