Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches reported Wilhelm of Doom disposed to content himself with this $3,570,000 sop, though he had demanded some...
...Garbage Man" is a delirious and effective scramble of American life, dealing with parades on Fifth Avenue, funerals, the Secret Service, he--and she--intellectuals, train-wrecks and night amusements on Union Square. Its satirical content is immense. Poking the ribs of inexplicable stupidities, making the mourners jig at the funeral, causing the garbage man to soliloquize horribly over the victims of the wreck, Mr. dos Passos' play makes the skeleton laugh while its bones rattle accompaniment. The hero's windy diatribes in re the moon and the "voice of the machine" are not successful to the same degree...
...commented upon. Not the least of these merits is taste. This age like all others has many writers of verse, many creative minds in literature. Unfortunately, too few of these men possess in addition to their native ability, the mental poise which disallows the indiscretions of mediocrity. Not content to pray to their own muse, they wantonly and with an often unintelligent iconoclasm destroy the temples of other muses. Such men, obviously, cannot stride the twin steeds of Pegasus and Propriety. Nor is this an ability remote from greatness. Bulls in so many china shons, they are often futile...
...need not say that no new agreements were concluded or projected. My own view is that these meetings serve the cause of peace and that our countries may well be content to see us meet from time to time, though they must not expect the whole world to change because we have conversation...
...Premier paused for breath ears strained for the expected denunciation of Germany as War guilty. It did not come. M. Poincare, the militarist who sent French bayonets to occupy the Saar, is now, it seems, preoccupied with saving the franc. Having affirmed his War innocence, Premier Poincare was content to change the subject...