Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard, together with several universities, has recently indicated a determination to do its share towards providing for a government by the competent and well-educated. Henceforth, no peevish utterances by public officials as to collegiate irresponsibility will carry weight. The next step is up to the government, more specifically, to...
A swaggering unprincipled clerk named Sergei starts the trouble. He squeezes the cook playfully, rolls her in a barrel while the peasants laugh uproariously.* Just for fun, Katerina accepts Sergei's challenge to wrestle with him in the courtyard. Because she has been lonely and restrained, she lets him...
From this point on the worship of the franc dominates the book as it dominated the books of Balzac. Marlise gets an esthetic pleasure out of contemplating her swelling revenues. She cannot walk down a road of Pargny without reflecting that so much of her money is in such-and...
This is all very well until what lawyers call "the demise of the Crown." As the old King dies your royal warrant expires and the new King may or may not let you sweep his chimneys. Thus purveyors to the Crown are always more or less on edge. Last week...
Another aspect of this fable of many facets is that beauty and comedy and tragedy remain in life, even in the midst of apocalyptic happenings. As the fated people move on past the Urals, the love affair of Raoul Perez, Royalist son of the Paris banker, also moves on to...