Word: enigma
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ISABEL and SHALL WE JOIN THE LADIES? Margaret Lawrence and a costly company spreading the polished humors of the drawing-room, and the mysterious tremors of Barrie's dining-rom enigma...
...explain, and laguh away, a great many of the dangerous "dissensions" that marred the Games! Far from being "mischieyous", such experiences, if regarded in the proper and unsensational light, will even aid in international appreciation of character and feeling. A man-or a nation-becomes very little of an enigma once you have seen him in anger...
Chancellor Wilhelm Marx was confronted with the greatest political enigma that has yet crossed the threshold of his career...
...Monarchists were admitted ; the Monarchists refused to join if the Socialists were to be represented. Foreign Minister Stresemann threatened to secede from the Government coalition unless Chancellor Marx gave the Monarchists the promised seats. The Chancellor wished to admit both Monarchists and Socialists into the Cabinet. The enigma defied solution. Resignations, dissolution of the Reichstag, with consequent general elections, were hinted. Herr Wirth, onetime Chancellor, and Herr Breitscheid, a Socialist leader, were mentioned as prospective Chancellor and Foreign Minister, respectively. Only one thing remained clear: Something had to be done. Beyond that, the future declined to speak...
POINCARÉ - Sisley Huddleston - Little Brown ($2.50). Called a biographical portrait, this book attempts to solve the enigma which the French call Poincaré. The author is not particularly successful. He hardly pierces the veil of the unknown that hangs around the ex-Premier, but he makes many shrewd comments and gives some first-hand impressions of the man who has "les poings, poings, poings . . . les poings carres...