Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...activate our economy we can rely on the profits system and the hope of gain, or we can try the new European ideas of state regulation and the fear of punishment. We can try either, but we can't try both at the same time...
Neville Chamberlain, angered by criticism of the secrecy with which he is trying to make a European Peace through diplomatic channels instead of at Geneva, this week hotly told the Commons...
Peace. So many European beauties of all ages now clamored for his attention that D'Annunzio contrived a semi-monastic villa on Lake Garda where for years things have been made exciting but not too easy for his guests, male or female. The guestroom drawers brimmed with the finest silken lingerie in Europe, but the Genius, who was now well beyond three score, would often simply talk romantically all night...
...centuries had a monastery. In 1510 one of the monks, Dom Bernardo Vincelli, discovered that a magnificent cordial could be made by mixing certain herbs with honey, sugar and alcohol. Named "Elixir," the beverage lured King Francis I to Fécamp in 1534 to drink it, was a European favorite by the time of the French Revolution. Then the Benedictine monastery at Fécamp was destroyed, the monks dispersed, the secret of Elixir apparently lost forever. In 1863, however, Monsieur Alexander Le Grand of Fécamp chanced on an ancient tome in which Dom Vincelli...
...Political moves which in 1911 or 1914 would have set the world aflame," he explained, "are today considered a legitimate part of the European diplomatic game. As a consequence, the Fascist powers, glorifying dynamic action, have come to set the pace of European power politics...