Word: european
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman of mixed Franco-Teuton stock who has hundreds of highly industrialized factories, and many more intensively cultivated farms. His foreign policy is international, easy to state, based squarely on self-interest, hard to attain. It is Peace Throughout Europe?for Belgium is the unhappy cockpit in which European wars are fought...
...Jewish mental, ethical and religious equipment is of a simple rugged type which takes its set so rapidly that a Jewish boy is considered "of age" at 13. The more delicate and fragile European type seldom takes a mature set before the age of 24. This means eleven years' advantage in hardness and maturity on the side of a Jewish boy whose competitor is a European type...
...Because the Jewish mechanism is simpler, it is not encumbered by the self-torturing "ideals" of the European type. The Jew is a realist in competition, confining his ideals to the home. The Jewish mechanism functions directly toward its material ends. The European type is swayed out of its course by the ideals: "gentleman," "patriot" "sportsman"?and forgets that the "gentleman" is only a late survival of the "knight," a type shown to be impractical, and ridiculed by Cervantes...
...boor, who enters a European theatre must tip the usher. At Parisian music halls the ushers, vociferously rampant, will, if not tipped, stand at one's elbow and cry: "Service! Service! SERVICE!" almost indefinitely.* Last week the publicity agent of the Parisian Usher's Association issued an explanatory bit of propaganda: 1) The ushers are not paid to usher. 2) Instead they pay 50 centimes (2?) a night to the management for each seat assigned tp them. 3) Therefore they must figure on a minimum tip of one franc (4?) from each person whom they usher into...
...same time took into the firm another young man of financial perspicacity?Abraham Wolff. It was not long before Jacob Schiff dominated the partnership, and it was due largely to him that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. has made its close connections with European bankers. He, too, it was who fought with Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909) against James Jerome Hill (1838-1916) and John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) for control of Northern Pacific in 1901. That created the great "corner" in Northern Pacific, whose shares rose to $1,000 each. But Jacob Schiff and J. P. Morgan, foreseeing panic...