Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signature of 72 German best minds-such men as Dr. Hjalmar Schacht (president of the Reichsbank), Albert Einstein (relativity), Novelist Thomas Mann (Buddenbrooks), Chancellor of Germany Hermann Miiller, Chairman Theodor Leipart of the associated German trades unions-the manifesto read: "After an epoch in which the victor states [in the War] . . . sought to force on Germany their will-an epoch in which Germany came close to the abyss-German efforts have succeeded in bringing about a revival. . . . The period of violence and one-sided dictatorship was succeeded by a period of negotiations and understanding. . . . Liberation of the Rhineland from foreign...
BEETHOVEN THE CREATOR-Remain Holland-Harper ($5). "I will refresh my eyes, a last time, at the sun of Beethoven," begins virile Author Holland. "The whole being of a Beethoven ... is representative of a certain European epoch. . . . He is not the shepherd driving his flock before him; he is the bull marching at the head of his herd." Portrait at 30. "The mind of Beethoven has strength for its base. The musculature is powerful, the body athletic; we see the short stocky body with its great shoulders, the swarthy red face, tanned by sun and wind, the stiff black mane...
...calculating this current Steinmetz, who spurned the smaller problems he was given, produced his own "symbolic method" which gave General Electric decisive advantage over competitors. No inventor he, the Steinmetz theoretical work found fruition in three thick red volumes, Alternating Current. His popular book is America and the New Epoch, showing why he was pro-German in the War, also how the merger of small companies into a trust was a step toward Socialism. After indulging in Socialist politics, a Western lecture tour, a denial as scientist, of immortality and God's existence, Steinmetz died...
...their sentiment,--perhaps they do recall the fierce antagonism of the great war. Nevertheless I do not favor removing them. The habit of pulling down monuments has in it something of the childish. Why not let the decorations stand for what they are worth and for the epoch they record? Such a practice makes history interesting and accords with a reverence for facts...
...millionaire, a lady, and a tiger, which has been told before but never so effectively. In the 1914 manner of the cinema, it was a story of marital infidelity as crude and tawdry as its papier-mâché settings. As done in the 1919 epoch, it was a heavy-footed charade, overburdened with its setting. Now, a vehicle for Greta Garbo's disturbing shadow, it moves lightly, even wittily, and the lady's momentary struggle between her husband's coldness and the impetuosity of the prince takes place against a new and interesting background, handled...