Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noted a staid though flag-bedecked building on East 41st Street. Of what importance could it be? Where were crowds, vociferous fanfare? Yet inside were 140 Englishmen, 200 Americans carefully explaining what they had scientifically done for industry. They made up the Society of Chemical Industry. Their meeting was the first held in the U. S. since...
Unlike these two Englishmen is Zuloaga, called the modern El Greco, the modern Goya, and other foolish titles. A bald and portly Latin with a bushy moustache which grows lighter in color and smaller with the years, Zuloaga is spectacularly and entirely Spanish. His work, though loud, is sound. Like many fashionable artists, he has ingratiating traits of personality which cause his patrons to regard him as a gentle and delectable monster. When he exhibited in the U. S. four years ago, he sold $100,000 of paintings on the first day of the show and Governor Fuller outdid himself...
...Greater Germany" [including Austria] "will once again become the determinant factor of history." But they will always be blamed for their conquests, because, unlike Englishmen, they are known to know when they have done wrong...
...Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. He went abroad and after inspecting Germany, gave an interview exonerating Germany and Wilhelm II from all War blame. When he came home he settled down in Washington. His Oklahoma days were over and he now looks back on them much as returned and retired Englishmen revive their careers in the British provinces and colonies. From the point of view of actual votes, the Owen "bolt" seemed far less important, last week, than another departure from...
...impotency of the Internationale to take any disciplinary action against Stalin results from the tremendous influence he exerts through the Communist party of Soviet Russia of which he is nominally "secretary" and actually "boss." Russians are forever reminding Englishmen who protest against the world propaganda of the Third Internationale that when James . Ramsay Macdonald was Prime Minister of Great Britain (Jan.-Nov. 1924), he continued to act as Secretary of the Second (Socialist) Internationale of which the Third (Communist) Internationale was originally a faction until it split off and achieved independence under Nikolai Lenin. The First (Radical) Internationale was organized...