Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telling contrast to these blatancies, came news that Signor Mussolini was unusually active last week in participating in a series of quiet conferences with visiting foreign statesmen, which began when he received Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey in Milan (TIME, April 16). Further august visitors received last week were Prime Minister Count Bethlen of Hungary, Foreign Minister August Zaleski of Poland, Foreign Minister Andrew Michalapoulos of Greece, and German Finance Minister Dr. Heinrich Koehler...
...contrast to her earlier saga of the Jewish Matriarch's passionate assumption of power, Author Stern now tells the story of an Anglo-Saxon mother's fluttering desire, not for power, but for filial devotion, which is doled out to her spasmodically, and none too generously by a generation impatient of self-sacrifice. With wit and wisdom Miss Stern divides her sympathies, but indulges of course the side of radiant, reckless youth...
April is here, Easter is almost a reality, vacation is in sight; and professor, wishing to sweeten that one little week all the more by contrast, fill these remaining few days of labor to capacity. But even the student up to his neck in examinations is aroused from that apathetic condition by the cheerful activity of the Democratic Club, whose busy members shame the moans of the weary by their energy. For has not presidential year rolled around, bringing balm to reporters, Democrats to Houston, and raisons d'etre to undergraduate political clubs...
...under hypnotism. The patient, with both arms extended in front of him, has been told that the blood would leave one arm and go to the other. The operator has then massaged one arm and the blood has drained into the other arm until the arms presented a shocking contrast in red and white. Red and white they remained until the signal was given. Then the blood was seen to flow slowly back until both arms were the same color. The mechanism of this is unknown but the fact has been demonstrated repeatedly...
...word, the picture is very amusing and eminently well worth seeing; well directed with Miss Brooks and Mr. McLagien forming a very delightful contrast...