Word: doings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"I stand at the window and I see automobiles and the wheels turning and smoke coming out of chimneys and people walking around, and I can't believe it. Think of seeing my son. Do you know, the nurses had to tell me what things were. I would ask...
Graf Zeppelin. With Germany's minister to Austria (Count Hugo Lerchenfeld) and the Austrian Minister of Commerce (Dr. Hans Schürff) aboard, the Graf Zeppelin rose from its field at Friedrichshafen one morning at dawn and before 10 a. m. was flying over Vienna. School children in the streets sent...
When the first volume of Capital was published (in German) it raised no great storm. It was to do its work later ? in Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Russia, Japan, Latin-America, China. It was not a guidebook for revolutionists. It was the fountainhead of a social current...
Few artists, art critics or art patrons who do not live in Manhattan are quick to concede that that angular island is the art capital of the U. S. Yet it is to Manhattan that most U. S. art disputes, such as one which lately raged in Philadelphia, are taken...
Two decades ago, when Americanization was word-of-the-hour, a slim, stylish, grey-haired woman with a brisk, dynamic manner and a pleasant, persuasive voice, left the protection of Rittenhouse Square and journeyed across Philadelphia to the foreign quarter to "do her bit." She was Mary Louise Curtis Bok...