Word: civilizer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pamiat Lenina. But Mme. Borodin was not released. To rescue her, Russia must send much gold, or many men, offer some great concession, or concoct some really potent threat. "Mrs. Grosberg," Chinese thought, is likely to prove the most valuable hostage of the whole Chinese civil...
Effeminacy Hypothesis. William II, says Author Ludwig, possesses "the gifts of a high-strung nature beyond a doubt." With his incurable, withered arm he should have turned to a brilliant civil career; but, alas, the military tradition of Prussia demanded as Crown Prince a dashing cavalry officer. Worse still his mother, Victoria² (daughter of British Queen-Empress Victoria), was repelled by her son's deformity, hated him, and once remarked inhumanly to an Austrian nobleman: "You can scarcely imagine how I admire your handsome, intelligent and graceful Crown Prince³ when I see . . . my uncouth, lumpish son William...
Then came the Civil War, "a white gash." Lincoln, a man of full height, was cut down. Soon after, men were describing life as "not dying." Industrialism continued the war, continued slavery. Lincoln's son headed the Pullman Co. Andrew Carnegie vowed to retire to Oxford at 30 but amassed millions instead, and wished another generation the joy he had missed in libraries. Charles Francis Adams went in for railroads. Colorless, sad Howells, despairing Mark Twain, bitter-black Ambrose Bierce were the successors of Herman Melville, whose grappling with the primeval had been tragic but sublime; of Whitman, whom...
...years a civil war raged between the Reds and the so-called White army, with the whites succumbing because the peasants refused to aid them through fear of reinstatement of the landlords should the Reds be defeated...
Archbishop Ruiz y Flores of Michoacan, Mexico, gave consolation last week to religious Mexicans who, although married according to civil ceremony, dared not be married by Roman Catholic rite. President Calles, enforcing his Mexican Constitution has forbidden this; and all Mexican girls could not afford to quit the country as did President Calles' own daughter (TIME...