Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forty famed engineers gathered at the White House luncheon table. After the meal they awarded to their host, President Hoover, the John Fritz gold medal, highest honor of the American Engineering Societies?civil, mining & metallurgical, mechanical, electrical...
Among the objects of humor which Mr. Herbert finds to be afflicted with this touchiness are domestic servants, policemen, civil servants. Americans, Mussolini, clergymen and plumbers. To which the Lampoon, no doubt, would add Princetonian and the House Planners. But nobody's touchiness will be outraged by the current Lampoon. It is a monstrous fat book, the fattest in all Lampoon history, and it is a parody of that strangely sportive new child of Boston. The Sportsman...
Though the State Department has not yet recognized Soviet Russia it was recently held in Manhattan by Federal Judge Goddard that "civil contracts, such as marriage, performed according to Russian law, hold good in the United States, despite the absence of diplomatic recognition...
SWORDS AND ROSES-Joseph Hergesheimer-Knopf ($3.50) Author Hergesheimer's concept of the Civil War does not startle. He employs no impelling format such as Stephen Vincent Benet's in John Brown's Body. In his graceful manner he merely fashions what his publishers are pleased to call belles lettres. In spite of this he commands a host of readers. Sensitive to nuances of a bygone age, he distills the essence of proverbial Southern romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues...
...Managing Director, announced that his company's "British Only" stock issue had been unconditionally withdrawn. Thus the principle of financial internationalism was thoroughly vindicated; thus the U. S. financier can send his dollars across the ocean, confident that they will meet with at least a civil reception...