Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quite different from Ras Desta Demtu was Haile Selassie's other son-in-law, bug-eyed little Haile Selassie Gugsa. Ruler of the eastern part of Tigre Province, he is a direct descendant of that King John of Ethiopia still venerated as a saint by the Coptic Church. His great-uncle, John IV, was a sworn enemy of fierce-whiskered old Emperor Menelik who later defeated the Italians at Aduwa. Ras Gugsa's father kept up the family feud against Menelik and his grandnephew, Ethiopia's present Emperor, was on the best of terms with the Italian...
...System ... the embodiment of the best banking thought and experience in the world, did not check the great inflation which culminated in 1929. . . ." And he broadly hinted that the weakest spot in the credit hose was the Treasury with its huge stabilization fund and its moral, if no longer direct, influence over Federal Reserve policy...
...post-war banquet." Hitler. Roosevelt, Stalin, Mussolini and Mustapha Kemal are a shade less formidable, while the Freemasons, J. P. Morgan. Chiang Kaishek, Baron Rothschild, Sir Henri Deterding, Michailoff, head of the Macedonian terrorists, are exploited as men of mystery engaged in sinister doings. So far as its direct political interpretation is concerned, the dominant message communicated by Our Lords and Masters is that in all parts of the world individuals about whom little is known are absorbed in intrigues whose exact character cannot be determined, against persons equally enigmatic. Readers who remain to the end are likely to experience...
...newshawks spied the following passages: "I have had various operations on my head which Dr. Harvey Gushing, now of New Haven, Conn., most skillfully and generously performed; I believe that a study of my head after my death may serve the advancement of science, and I therefore direct that it be severed from my body and delivered to the said Dr. Gushing." At the Yale Medical School famed Brain Surgeon Gushing, father-in-law of James Roosevelt, said he was already working on Mrs. Glogau's brain which had been marred by a tumor of the pituitary gland...
...tell the Spartans ye that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie"... View of John Weeks bridge from Duster at dusk... A little child relating a pleasant dream... A lovely girl in evening clothes descending stairs... Percy Granger's "Country Gardens"; the "Song of India"... A direct blood transfusion between friends... We roofs beneath the lamp light... Polished brass knockers on doors of dull dwellings... The Charles river at sunset... Professor Whitehead lecturing; Professor Lake reading the Bible... The line: "Euclid alone hath looked on beauty bare." Corinthian columns actually supporting a fine entablature... Modesty, any time...