Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...covering nearly all of Europe, able New York Times-woman Anne O'Hare McCormick last week returned to the U. S. keynoting "the imperturbable optimism of Great Britain, which worries less than any nation on earth." That plenty of Britons were deliberately taking a humorous view of the European Crisis was a major fact in London last week. In the House of Commons, however, more seriousness was in evidence. In awful dignity the Prime Minister arose and spoke. "I do not deny," came Neville Chamberlain's solemn admission, "that my original belief in the League as an instrument...
Thus His Majesty's Government were again profiting last week from the natural tendency of the typical John Bull never to take Central European troubles seriously, his incurable taste for chuckling with the rulers of the British Empire at the rest of the cockeyed world...
...have been able to speak with many workers who still remember and liked work in the old Russia. They remember it still as a hazy mirage because their salaries then guaranteed them sufficient food and the possibility of clothing themselves decently. ... I lived in 1937 and 1938 in western European countries, and therefore I am able to render a clear, exact account of the depth to which the fall of contemporary Russia has gone...
...Court of St. James, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, made his maiden speech before the American Club of London. Said he of the U. S.: "As many of you know, I have been bearish for a year. I feel a little ashamed of it when I see what confidence Europeans have in my country's future." Said Bullish Joe Kennedy of Europe: "There will be no general European war for the rest of this year at least...
...chimed is lost in Oriental antiquity, but most authorities agree that bells, as distinguished from gongs, cymbals and tinklers, were unknown in the Western world until Roman churches began using them in the 5th century, A. D. In the Spear collection are bells from the period when the first European bells were cast instead of being made from metal plates. Others: fragile bells of Venetian glass, Italian Renaissance bells of bronze, children's play bells from 17th-Century Spain, Austrian bells of chased silver, a Chinese porcelain bell of the Sung dynasty. One tiny gold bell in the form...