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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recalled that Germany was the last nation in the War to desire the rehabilitation of the Tsar's army (for which purpose Kitchener started to Russia), and entered into negotiations with the revolutionaries for the express purpose of demoralizing not only the military but the civil power. It is a matter of common knowledge that this insidious bit of weltpolitik was only too successful; and it hardly seems possible that Germany can escape the responsibility (as an act of war) for Kitchener's death...
French forces in Morocco, although ably commanded by Marshal Lyantey, are faced with almost certain defeat as they drive the Moorish invaders back across the Riffian border. That is, unless Spain steps into the breach and lends a hand. The Riff was ceded to Spain on the express understanding that she keep the turbulent tribesmen in order; needless to state, she has never succeeded in keeping Abd-el-Krim's hoodlums out of mischief. The French command may not send a shell, man, or plane across the border to destroy the Moorish bases, and it would be a very simple...
Before the curtain finally settled on the closing scene of "Great Catherine" last Monday night, it had to rise some ten or a dozen times for the audience to express its approval. The general enthusiasm continued as high during the second play, and indeed increased, for the presence on the stage of Mr. Clive brought, as it always does, more zest to the acting of everybody...
...having a special significance. They see about them "liberals" among Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, hard pressed to maintain their freedom of thought and action against "fundamentalists." They think liberals should become Unitarians and even charge them with intellectual dishonesty for not so doing. Their current literature and speeches express the wonder that men whose minds are open to Science can remain in the old creedal denominations. Celebration. But it was not the motes in their brothers' eyes which inspired the opening sermon delivered by Rev. Paul revere Frothingham Boldly he analyzed: "We want a divine inheritance and a spiritual...
...express the 48 fundamental sounds of the English tongue, the English alphabet has, as every one knows, only 26 letters. Whence it arises that the vocal chords of various parts of the English-speaking world have fallen into various habits of rendering the letter combinations reported to them by their colleagues, the optic nerves...