Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France can maintain an army of 5,000,000, Poland an army of 2,000,000. Czechoslovakia 1,500,000 and Italy and other European countries 5,000,000. The Kellogg treaty, under these conditions, is not worth Lord Cushendun's railway fare to Paris to sign it. A clash is inevitable sooner or later if these gigantic armies are maintained, and the Anglo-French compact binds us to support France in its contention that not only these armies shall not be cut down but shall not even be discussed...
Nearly every U. S. citizen knows the name of the super-famed crack express train which plys between New York and Chicago. Similarly every smart European knows the Orient Express, famed Paris-to-Bucharest flyer. Last week this train de luxe sped Parisward from Bucharest, Rumania with shrieking whistle, tolling bell, toward Death...
Many new singers are on the Chicago list this year. The sopranos are: Frieda Leider of the Berlin Staatsoper, in her heyday, like Olszewska and well-established in Europe; Margarita Salvi, young, slender and Spanish; Eva Turner, English and ebullient; Alice Mock, a Californian with European experience, to make her debut as Micaela in the opening Carmen; and Antoinetta Consoli of Lawrence, Mass.. who will sing Frasquita; Marion Claire, 24-year-old Chicagoan; Hilda Burke, Baltimorean; Patricia O'Connell, Alabaman and daughter of a New York Times staff writer. Contraltos: Ada Paggi, Italian, and Coe Glade, 22-year...
...European monarchs, Stuart died almost penniless...
...will apparently become a factor not to be overlooked in the University life. Among these men, approximately sixty foreign nations, protectorates and colonial possessions are represented, the greatest national elements being those of China, Japan, and England. The majority of foreign students having already received their degrees at some European or Occidental University, are enrolled in the graduate schools. The Germann, Japanese, and Chinese show a preference for the business school, while the greater part of the Europeans tend to the arts or the sciences. Still another group are merely temporarily at the University for a few months for purposes...