Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany Thomas Mann traced the rise of a great bourgeois family in Buddenbrooks; in England conscientious John Galsworthy produced the more comprehensive but less artistic Forsyte Saga; and the works are representative of innumerable lesser realistic European novels...
...close contact with his own race. He was born Muni Weisenfreund in a part of Austria which is now Poland in the little town of Lemberg, which he left at the age of one month and has never seen since. His parents were traveling actors who journeyed from one European capital to another, performing in the ghettos. The nomadic life of the Weisenfreunds took them to London, where Muni went to his first school, and later, when Muni was six, to the goal of all the nomadic Jews of Europe...
...Montfaucon at 2 p. m.) and the President of the U. S. (from his yacht in the Potomac River at 9 a. m.) took to the radio in an international hookup. Together with dignitaries and politicians of both nations gathered at Montfaucon, they celebrated the completion of twelve European monuments and eight cemeteries glorifying and interring 31,000 American soldiers who died to make the World Safe for Democracy...
Farouk had arrived from a European holiday with Fawziya, Faiza, Faika and Fathiya, his sisters, and his mother Queen Nazli "a handsomer Queen than Cleopatra." His father Fuad considered that "names commencing with 'F' are exceedingly propitious," and today Egyptians consider Farouk just about tops in a name beginning with F since it means in translation "One Who Carefully Distinguishes Between Right & Wrong." In any Eastern country the populace always frantically cheer their Lord and Master,* and both Alexandria and Cairo went deliriously wild last week over Farouk I. In Egypt some $50,000 will buy enough triumphal...
...Gordian knot of artistic theories. Art critics in Paris, London and Manhattan last week regarded Adolf Hitler's latest slash at this knot as possibly something more than the action of a man who lacks either the subtlety to untie it or the humor to let it alone. European surrealists have recently publicly allied themselves with the French and Spanish Communists, thus provoking the Führer's political enmity as well as his esthetic rage...