Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the ruling monarch dies, there often arises the question of--"who will be the next king?" After the successor is crowned, it is quite the thing to say--"long live the king!" But usually the thinkers and the office-seekers ponder deeply the question of the new king's...
The Interchurch World Movement was essentially a liberal one. Conservatives opposed it from the beginning. The Movement dies, as Fundamentalists come to the fore.
Story of Thais. Athana?, a Cenobite monk living in the Theban desert near Alexandria, worships God through self-mortification. On a visit to Alexandria he meets Thaïs, beautiful courtesan who worships Venus. Nicias, a young Sybaritic philosopher, has bought her love for one week. The monk Athena? perceives in...
When a man of genius dies, the world not only regrets the man, but selfishly perhaps, regrets the unborn brain-children which his genius would certainly have brought forth. In Dr. Steinmetz's death, humanity, not merely engineering or science, has suffered a tremendous loss. For eventful as his life...
Casanova. Casanova, in life, was not only Don Juaner than Don Juan ever thought of being-he wrote eight volumes or so of memoirs to prove it. On the stage, in this play adapted from the Italian by Sydney Howard, he is somewhat expurgated but still romantic. The only real...