Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentleman from a European country had been staying for several days with friends in Lowell House. He was delighted with everything. Harvard was a grand place, indeed, a most excellent place, and there was he averred, little room for improvement anywhere...
Since a King must often speed unobserved from front to front in wartime, Italy's Royal Train is closely curtained with rich stuffs at night, shows no chink of light. Instead of the precarious passage from car to car amid jangling and jagged gadgets common on most European trains, the passageway between cars is lined with heavy velvet, the handrails roped with cords of gold...
SAWDUST CAESAR-George Seldes- Harper ($3). Well-documented record of the rise and rule of Mussolini, by a one-time European correspondent and author of Freedom of the Press...
...sign of disorder." Simultaneously Yin announced as the capital of his regime Tungchow, only twelve miles east of Peiping and a leading Chinese educational centre not far from Yenching University whose calm, clear-headed President John Leighton Stuart is now in Manhattan. Highly excited, Yenching's Chinese, American & European faculty leaders this week joined fiery Chinese Philosopher Hu Shih in a manifesto demanding that the Nanking Government "use the energies of the entire nation to maintain the territorial and administrative integrity of China." Gravely Dr. Stuart opined that, in case Japan makes North China a second Manchukuo, the courageous...
...also in the American, the News, the Herald Tribune, stories in the Sun, the World-Telegram, the Journal. The fatherly New York Times merely noted that Mme Wettergren had arrived, quoted Edward Johnson, new manager of the Metropolitan, to the effect that Mme Wettergren was probably the most important European singer to make a U. S. debut this season...