Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Czech Surgeon-Playwright Frantisek Langer is the last production of the eleventh Theatre Guild season. It is a success story in the mid-European idiom. Alik is the silent, dawdling son of a millionaire. All that he subsequently becomes, his redemption from a life of complete inertia, he owes to a girl, Susi. Naturally, since Alik is Continental, Susi is not his wife. Possessing the shrewdness of the slums, she manages, when Alik's father ousts her from Alik's modernistic chambers, to take Alik away with her, to make him work. Together they found a model dairy...
Like Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and many another European state, France has long had a system of restricting U. S. film imports. The reason is similar to that which caused Congress to put a tariff on French gowns and hats. Supreme and unrivaled in their own fields are Parisian modistes and Hollywood producers. As yet, however, Congress has not decreed that for every three gowns that a Parisienne sells in the U. S., she must buy one U. S. gown and try to sell it in France. The uproar, the heaven-piercing cries for justice which would rise from...
...Supreme Court bench: "Eyes and ears are poor witnesses when the soul is barbarous." All of the ornament has significance and is worked into the fabric of the building. The Goodhue family are oldtime Connecticut dwellers. Architect Goodhue was born in Pomfret Hill. Not for him was the European interlude enjoyed by most architecture students. At the age of 16 he went from Russel's Collegiate & Commercial Institute in New Haven to Manhattan where he began drawing classical orders under the tutelage of Architect James Renwick for more than six years. This able mentor disciplined his pupil...
...ponderously that even though the will of the people were for such sweeping reductions of the German debts and such guarantees of political restoration of Germany as he proposes, the machinery could work smoothly and rapidly enough to give him his wish. If the Dawes Plan breaks down, European reconstruction may be set back ten years...
...trip, plus a supply to replenish the medicinal liquor stock. At the 12-mile-limit the inbound Leviathan will jettison all unconsumed liquor except the medicinal supply under seal which will be held in readiness to refresh passengers on the next eastbound trip. The westbound trip, with a full European stock, will be wetter than the eastbound trip with its limited medicinal supply for sale. Likewise the chief steward will have to exercise rare judgment in making his purchases abroad to estimate the exact thirst of westbound passengers and thus reduce to the minimum the surplus to be discharged...