Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every people has its own ideas of art, determined by the inherent temperament of the race. The European temperament is enormously different in character from that found in America...
Ludwig Lewisohn, Jewish author who has suffered from Christian ostracism, recommends in his new book, Midchannel, that states invest rabbis with full legal powers in affairs affecting Jews, especially concerning marriage and divorce. Several European countries have such autonomous courts. Manhattan has an extra-legal one whose chief function has become the smoothing of disputes between Jewish manufacturers and tradesmen...
That a bastard could keep a bitter bargain when an emperor of the blood could not, is the thrilling tale which Author Preedy tells in all the sharp contrast of two disparate natures. With ingenious charm he answers an enigma of European history, enriching it with intriguing rogues, loyal soldiers, a soothsayer, an acrid duchess, and a golden-haired damsel who sets a light at her bedroom window...
...concerned, the grip of that quinine monopoly has just been broken," declared Dr. Julius Klein of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce last week. There was exultation in his voice: "Up until recently the European quinine manufacturers, working under an ironclad agreement with the producers in the Indies, had things going very much their own way. The trust regulated precisely the amount of the drug that was to come upon the markets of the world. It allocated certain definite quantities to each of the consuming territories. Its dictates were imposed inflexibly. It controlled the disposition and price...
...think I understand more clearly than you imagine what you mean. Not long ago I visited an exhibition of modern pictures at Pittsburgh. Almost every European nation was represented. As I looked at those pictures I felt I could see through them into the minds of the nations which had created them...