Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When this complex affair was expounded to the House, last week, by Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, his round, merry, moist visage seemed that of a Summer Santa Claus...
...when the glamour of the stage seemed a more tangible thing. Because the roles they played were generally those of people far more splendid than real ones, the impersonators, subtly identified with their parts, became themselves remote and dazzling creatures. They lived, one imagines now, in a labyrinth of complex and uncomfortable luxury. Their lovers were lords or poets and their love affairs were not casual encounters but tragedies as poignant and improbable as those through which they sighed and fainted on the stage. Even their indiscretions possessed grandeur and all their daring only added to their dignity. Thus with...
Last week this prophetic boast was made good. The nimble "Old Man of Crete" and his Liberals succeeded in upsetting the Cabinet of Alexander Zaimis, on a complex financial issue, and finally forced the appointment of Venizelos as Prime Minister...
...relations of Chile with the U. S. are certainly not complex. Ambassador Collier has handled them with such distinguished ease that there has not been even a hint of a "Chile incident." Previously, he had been U. S. Minister to Spain (1905-09) and president of George Washington University (1918-21). He is a lawyer. Nine fat volumes have come from his pen; among them, Collier on Bankruptcy, The Trusts, The Law and the Higher...
Students of the period will find the book a stimulating biography of the man who was the lone break in the chain of Stuart monarchy from Elizabeth to William of Orange. Those less familiar with the complex seventeenth century will enjoy contact with a singular personality...