Word: europeanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furiously on, spoke M. Briand. For half an hour he conversed at breakneck speed in a low tone. Dr. Stresemann, his face masked in passivity, sat grimly silent. M. Briand was alleged to have discussed with him European policy anent Soviet Russia, the question of War guilt and, according to the onlookers, Dr. Stresemann appeared to agree with everything the French foreign minister said, but held his counsel, except to agree for the time being to drop the question of who started the War. Busybodies were mystified...
...Author is a graduate of the University of North Carolina. Travels in Europe, delvings into European information mines produced the news which made possible the scornful iconography of his previous much-heralded work on Benjamin Franklin. From the same sources, he has gathered now for the life of a less intimate hero, the same casual, rapid style, a possibly less accurate body of research, but an even more engaging history...
Then lendors with undignified violence died, and thin lips folded over expectation confirmed. Days later newspapers, were rushed up gangplanks and the comments of the European press began to appear. There was a tendency in all of them, including the Scandinavian and especially the English, to make a martyr of the woman. Something was said concerning the blow to the freedom of apt in her death, a fancy particularly shocking to a locality only beginning to sleep off an overdose of Anglomania...
...realm of fable and fancy will send two of its foremost citizens. George Ade, whose "Fables in Slang" delighted American and European readers of two decades ago, and George Barr McCutcheon, creator and king of the realm of Graustark, will be the two authors who claim Purdue as their Alma Mater, while J. T. McCutcheon, the cartoonist, will complete the trio of alumni which will carry the Purdue colors into the Stadium...
...Nine-tenths of the Hungarian people, including, myself, would gladly welcome the return to a monarchy. Budapest would receive our exiled Queen and Prince Otto as our King with enthusiasm, but the big European powers object to this natural and rational solution of the simple dynastic problem...