Word: cordiality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Powers who have Quarreled much over next-to-nothing moved rapidly to adjust their differences last week. At Rome, Signor Benito Mussolini said: "I believe that a full, cordial and lasting understanding between France and Italy is possible and indeed, necessary. . . . When diplomacy has completed the preliminary work, a meeting between the French and Italian Foreign Ministers* will be logical." Thus he replied to Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France who recently declared: "I would meet him [Mussolini] at any time without displeasure." (TIME, Dec. 12). As an earnest that these sentiments are sincere, the French Government suppressed, last...
...colonnel, his natural father, makes him unwilling to submit to the indignities attendant on the negro's position in society, and his desire for enlightenment leads him to neglect a means of livelihood with the consequence that his family endures poverty and suffering and he earns for himself the cordial hatred of the whites wherever he goes. The final tragedy is striking and effective, leading through the stages of discouragement, unjust injury, a murder of desperation; and finally insanity to the sudden and merciless reprisal discharged through the rifles of the whites...
...translation of Dante's Divinia Commedia-a work that had aroused enthusiasm at Harvard in the 80's and had given a great impulse to the study of Dante in the U. S. Signor Mussolini gravely thanked her for thus honoring him and, in a cordial conversation, expressed his great admiration for her poet-father...
...cordial reception accorded a German actress on the Parisian stage, as well as other straws in the wind, have shown an increase in Franco-German amity. But the dove of peace has not flown over the same route as that taken by the German troops in 1914, for that way went through Belgium. And Belgium, unlike France, shows no disposition to forgive. The latest indication of this comes in the news that the inscription in the new Library of Louvain: "Destroyed by German fury; rebuilt by American love," is to remain unchanged in deference to the wishes of the populace...
Like most children of the professional play world, to whom five minutes' cordial applause somehow connotes complete triumph over Fortune, and a crisp five-dollar bill in the hand the equivalent of Croesus' sceptre, she has arrived at old age forlorn. Her house in Paris is tenanted by people who for two years have eluded the rent collector. She is in this country in an effort to recover her sight. Her foster son has deserted her. Her jewels are pawned. She has only the memory of her contemporaries, whose past brilliance still can cause her cataract-dimmed eyes...