Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governments are prone to look on books as if they were so much paper and ink, and not as expressions of real civilization. No matter how much the choices of each government may be criticised, then, an interest will be aroused which did not exist before, which may result in a closer examination of governmental censorship and taxation. If the interest in foreign literature grows, it is even possible that Congress may be forced to repeal the infamous "tax on knowledge", which makes foreign books so inordinately expensive in America...
...real dramatic art is curtailed by the silly audience, which goes to laugh and giggle through a tragedy. When earnest efforts meet with gales of laughter, and actor's soul curls up inside him. He learns to speak his lines; not live them. Real beauty on the stage cannot exist without deep, silent appreciation in the audience, which reaches across the foot-lights to the players, helping them on. A rustling, noisy audience, whispering, coming in late, going out early, is a purely American creation and hardly one to boast of. In Europe the drama meets with greater refinement...
...Morality did not exist for Napoleon: Byron only affected disregard of it. The poet's whole life, in fact, was a posture. He paraded himself before the whole of Europe, so that his life was spent upon a stage. While Shelley always sought the light, Byron sought the limelight. Disapprobation, even from the meanest of men cast him down...
...Because, without U. S. cooperation, the Protocol was seriously crippled. (What Mr. Chamberlain doubtless meant was that- although a definite entente between the U. S. and Britain cannot be proved to exist- no Government in Britain or in the British Dominions would today care to align itself against the U. S. The same might be said in a converse case, for it remains a fact that the foreign policies of the two countries, discounting inevitable differences of opinion, are to a large extent identical. Concrete expression of this premise is difficult, but it is notable that at no point...
...commercial possibilities, now that the fashions dictated by the regime of King Tut are on the decline. Think of the possibilities of genuine Punic buttons on Mi-lady's newest gown. Then, too, the discovery is not without historical value. One can now be practically certain that women did exist at the time of Salamnbz, and that the advent of the bob post-dated that era. The special cable to the New York Times stated that the "importance of such a discovery is evident." The most evident thing about it all is that if Count de Prorok wants to poke...