Word: european
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke of Sermoneta, famed Italian Oriental scholar: "Modern Christianity has become so truly European and non-Asiatic that it is no longer comprehensible to Asiatic minds...
...Story of romanticism in European music, of solo piano concerts, of pianists who exploit brilliant personalities for their art's sake, begins with the father-in-law and in-opera of Richard Wagner, the inventor of the symphonic poem, the demon-angel of European music for 60 years, Franz Liszt,* artist, lover, Franciscan monk...
...wireless the local health status. These reports are compiled and then relayed to worried, watchful Western officials. But this influenza spread caught the League unawares by starting, apparently, in Spain, just as did the influenza pandemic of 1918-19. Last week the League relayed wireless health reports of European, as well as of Occidental countries...
...states, the strategic relation of the Caribbean lands to our own shores and the necessity of defending the Panama Canal. This paramount interest has no connection with the Monroe Doctrine. Other countries are free to invest in Central America, but we must see that the Republics do not give European powers a chance to intervene on account of misbehavior...
...White House. Recently Mrs. Leonebel Jacobs went to China; last week in Manhattan she exhibited the faces of certain ladies and gentlemen few westerners have looked upon. The deposed Empress of the Manchus looks out under a headdress of cultured, decadent and nameless flowers. Prince Pu, with European hair, has the clear intelligent gaze of a Pekinese. There is Hsuan Tung, a petal-faced youth, the deposed Emperor; others, in stiff silk, noblemen, princes, knights. Mrs. Jacobs, a clever and sophisticated painter, does her work well, suggesting an exotic atmosphere with diminishing ovals, soft colors. She did not always charge...