Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since the war," continued Mr. Hibben, "there has been a steadily increasing disillusionment in the parliamentary or democratic type of government. In the countries of Southern Europe and particularly in Italy, it has been discredited and made ridiculous. But if Mussolinidies, or, what is more likely, one of his dissatisfied compatriots disposes of him by the simple expedient of murder, what comes next? There are only two kinds of self renewing governments that we know of today,--the parliamentary and the "dictatorship by the proletariat" type in effect in Russia and so-termed by its members. The first...
...which after five years of trouble they would gladly return to the Russians. The Romanians have resorted to a depouplation of the territory which they held by the simple means of murder. Russia has been handicapped in the international competition of diplomacy. Every respect able country has tried to discredit the Revolution and yet Russia has managed to carry has experiment to a successful stair...
...attention has been drawn to several most serious errors which appear in your issue of Jan. 4, pp. 23 and 24. These are of such a nature as to cast most serious discredit upon the Order of the Star in the East, Dr. Annie Besant, Mr. Krishnamurti and myself...
...Budapest: "CHIEF OF POLICE NADOSSY AND PRINCE WINDISCH-GRAETZ TEARFULLY CONFESS TO COUNTERFEITING 30,000,000,000 FRENCH FRANCS! Possible Fascist Putsch to Set up Archduke Albrecht of Hapsburg as Kaiser of Hungary Nipped by French Detectives! Premier Count Stephen Bethlen Believed Well Pleased at Developments, Which May Discredit His Rival, the Regent of Hungary, Nicholas Horthy...
...this present performance at the Hollis of the great Sheridan classic compares with the famous performances of the past, this reviewer is unable to say, but it is hard to see how any comparison could redound very greatly to its discredit. To begin with, Basil Dean has given an exceptionally sane and skillful production. To quote his own words in a program note: "Upon the vast, bare, stage of the old Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the year 1777, under the fitful light of oil lamps and candles, without the aid of doors, ceilings, and the usual accompaniments of modern...