Word: eden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always good biographical material, but seldom has he been exhibited in so dramatic, episodic and psychological a book as Mr. Ludwig's. Europeans were agreeably amazed in 1925 (when the book first appeared) that a German had written so sympathetically of Napoleon. Now, in the able translation of Eden and Cedar Paul, it is well on its way to be the outstanding biography...
...like all vicarious enjoyment, the common delight in the Equator is nothing more than a set of illusions. The "summer isles of Eden laying in dark purple spheres of sea" are, and embody much more, than grass skirts and ukeleles. Today, in his lecture in Economics 10b. at 9 o'clock in Widener U, Professor Usher will speak of the offstage tropics, under the title of "Modern Tropical Colonization; Its Purposes. Methods, and Ethical Concepts...
...boxes, or in tents. When not drilling, he is called on to repair worn-out plumbing systems and putter around creaking stables. Many an officer, living with his family at such a camp, has had to spend his own money to make his house livable. Having no Garden of Eden, the U. S. defenders take their fun where they find it. At Fort Douglas, they have invented the game of mule polo, whose chief difference from the authentic game is found in the temperamental habits of the mule...
Quietly, craftily, M. Loucheur has formed a syndicate of rich Frenchmen which was announced last week to have acquired 100 acres on the verdant Cap d'Antibes between blatantly expensive Nice and augustly expensive Cannes. On these charmed 100 acres an Eden sacred to Frenchmen of wealth and position will be established and guarded against Anglo-Saxons...
...night calm and cloudless, last week, Death hovered over the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia.* To the west Mount Ararat slumbered. To the east peasants watched their flocks in the valley of Araxes, allegedly the valley created "Eden" by Jehovah. Suddenly the earth's crust moved, opened a thousand cracks and fissures throughout the great plain of Alexandropol (now Leninakan). Whirling seething earth-masses hurtled and reeled. With a roar like that of thunder, many of the stone buildings of Leninakan crashed in ruins. All electric, gas, telephone and telegraph equipment were thrown out of commission. When communication...