Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Historical Sociology department of Smith College will open the meeting at 7.45 o'clock with a speech supporting the affirmative side of the topic. Professor Barnes has written a book on this subject entitled "The Genesis of the World War" in which he attributes the blame for the late European conflict to Russia and France instead of Germany...
...throbbing question then arose--who wrote it? John Lane and Company announced that only one person knew--the director of the firm, and that he was, of course, bound to secrecy. He would say--in fact he did say--that the writer's name was "a household word among European diplomats". This proclamation, made on Friday, was almost as interesting as the book itself...
...Democratic and European press pointed to President Coolidge's speech as being more fainthearted than wise...
...Grand Lama of Tibet, most fundamental of Fundamentalists, has bowed to Science. His mystery palace, the Potala, at Lhasa, now flashes with electricity, according to epochal word just received. Age after age, the grand Lama's seclusion has been a byword to awe. Lhasa, the Forbidden City-what European had seen it? A few 18th Century Capuchin friars; persistent but mostly unsuccessful 19th Century explorers. Not until 1904, under armed expedition of Col. Francis E. Younghusband, was there any adequate description. Since then things have moved faster in the Buddhist Mecca...
...June, 1864, Maximilian arrived at Mexico City. From the first he was unpopular, with the clerics because he was too liberal, and with the populace, because he was a foreigner. The European troops which supported him were detested by the natives. In the summer of 1886 Napoleon III decided to withdraw his forces. Maximilian was being deserted by the man who had brought him to his position and was using him as a pawn. His wife appealed to the emperor of the French to save her husband; he refused. She went, then, on an appeal to the Pope, but here...