Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moscow* is something more than a collection of character sketches. It is also an outline of conditions in Russia under the Soviet Government. To be sure the Bolshevik oligarchs are shown in a most favorable light and the environment in which they live savors of crude satisfaction. Each chapter holds a mirror to one attitude of Soviet Government and reflects the image of one leader. Future generations will talk of the founders of the new Russia; not merely of Lenin and Trotsky, but also of Kalinin, king of peasants; of Lenin's five subordinates, who as his adoring disciples...
...Pinney and his immediate family are rather carefully than well observed. Mrs. Chapman completes her sketch in the first chapter. The rest of the book is predictable. But on she goes, stabbing her victims with repeated thrusts of her vindictive hatpin. Not that it isn't a sympathetic picture. You feel sorry for Mr. Pinney, bristling and blustering, with his eawing laugh and his spoon cracking in the mustache cup and his pocket comb and his self-inflated pride and obtrusive optimism...
...book available for reference in the library. The instructor added two of his own. All three were stolen. A few days later a six volume edition of a work on Political Science was rendered practically useless because some undergraduate--doubtless intellectually eager -- had ripped out an entire chapter that was included in the assigned reading. The same day a book that was out of print was destroyed by several pages being ripped out. These are not isolated instances...
...Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey complied with the request made by the Earl of Balfour, Lloyd George, Asquith, Bonar Law-three past and one present Prime Minister-and Lord Grey-former Foreign Secretary-to erect a memorial to the war-time American Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...latest chapter in polar exploration may be written when Ronald Amundsen, the Norse explorer, hops off from Wainwright, on the north coast of Alaska, June 20 or shortly after for an airplane flight across the North Pole to Spitzbergen. In order to notify watchers and emergency rescue parties in Spitzbergen the news of his departure will be flashed thither by radio from Noorvik, on the west coast, the nearest transmitting station to Wainwright. Word will be carried over the intervening 400 miles by a chain of giant bonfires every fifteen miles, each tended by a team of Eskimos who will...