Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which could not do without support." His father says: " His general culture is full of gaps and he lacks genuine depths. This lack of maturity and this inexperience in my son, combined with his tendency toward exaggeration, make me feel that it would be dangerous to allow him to concern himself, at present, in foreign affairs." Bismarck remarks: " He is a man who would like to have a birthday every day, or solemn processions, or receptions, or parades, and, in his haughtiness, the role of the world's arbiter would be to his liking...
...Protestant. A Calvinist congregation in Rome received the head of the Vatican Choir with some enthusiasm, but soon found embarrassment in Perosi's fantastic ideas. The Vatican understood that the unfortunate musician was mad. They did not depose him from his leadership of the Sistine Choir. The chief concern was to get his manuscript compositions from him, so that he could not destroy them...
...different nations, will hold a meeting to consider the foreign policies of their respective states. The speeches will be restricted, as far as possible, to five minutes in order to leave time for a general discussion afterwards. The meeting, which is open to members of the University, will concern itself chiefly with the foreign policies of the lesser powers, since the Liberal Club has already discussed the larger nations, such as England, France, and Germany...
Felix Deutsch, successor to Walter Rathenau (former German Foreign Minister, assassinated June 24, 1922) as head of the Deutscheallgemeine- elektrizischegesellschaft, the greatest European electrotechnical concern, controlling coal and iron, and of the largest railway equipment trust in Europe...
...these periodicals are very interesting-even more fascinating, perhaps, for an occasional reading, to the layman than to the professional whom they more directly concern. Curious words-odd advertisements-the plots for a hundred stories are in them for the taking. And the theatrical weeklies are among the most interesting of them...