Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In the Borgo of San Marino, eldest and smallest republic, a group of sun-bronzed hillmen gathered, resentful. Theirs is a country without public debt, a tiny, remote upland (surrounded by Italy). There unemployment is unknown because every man either tills his ground or, if he has none to till...
Mr. Muir's analysis of the idiot's mind is more intense than the acuteness of a clinical report, for he sharply transmits to the reader the emotional reaction to large events, strained through a limited but unimpassive consciousness. He has maintained a changing balance of domination in the wills...
Observers recalled that Japanese husbands and wives can divorce each other at any time merely by registering their mutual desire to do so with the civil authorities. Under this system divorces have decreased 50% in Japan during the past 30 years. Only 51,687 divorces were granted last year; 80...
Said he: "America has been extraordinarily kind to me. But I cannot wholly admire your civilization. There is too much noise and speed, too much emphasis on mere material prosperity, too much desire to show off and attract attention, and too much selling."
Another situation included in the subject is the subtler, if somewhat less pressing, problem in the Philippine Islands, where some day, according to terrorists, expanding Japan will come to grips with America, unless, the latter withdraws. All this without taking into account the temper of the natives themselves, who have...