Word: facings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this insolent attitude" on the part of Paraguay, "you (the Paraguayan Minister) must leave this capital on the train which leaves Viachi Station at four p. m." Within a few hours the Paraguayan Government similarly kicked the Bolivian Minister out of Asuncion with the statement that "in the face of such an attitude" as Bolivia's, there was no choice but "to proceed in the same manner." The diplomatic negotiations were severed before any common sense steps had been taken and probably before the governments themselves really knew exactly what had happened at remote Fort Vanguardia. The significance...
...Cambridge, one insinuates, the child never grew large and dangerous enough to require execution. The about face of the autumn's team may have saved the University from the wails of the Black Shirts. Stald Sever may continue to enjoy its annual laugh; the provisions dealer will not lose a profitable Black Shirts. Stald Sever may continue to enjoy its annual laugh; the provisions dealer will not lose a profitable trade; the prophet still has a potential wall for dull seasons. The three chorus their thanks to Allston and to New Haven, and silence settles over the fields...
...cinema walls enclose it; but the perfectly solid foundations of the presidential palace of Bolivia. And during these demonstrations: the Quaker President-elect watches the waves from the battleship carrying him on his tour of friendship; the Pan-American Conference opens with false assurances of cheer in the face of absent Argentina and the two quarrelsome neighbors; the statesmen of Europe meet at Lugano, not even trying to dissimulate the seriousness of their situation...
Miss Stoner's story was that she had given Mr. Loeb an $8,000 ruby bracelet to be repaired, that she later saw him with another woman who was wearing the bracelet, that when she protested Mr. Loeb punched her in the chest and face, kicked her and generally abused her. She caused Mr. Loeb to be arrested, took her story to court...
...sculptor once portrayed Art Young with one side of his face crying, the other side laughing. The object of both these emotions in Art Young is the world, not himself. About the latter he entertains chiefly a healthy curiosity, a self-respecting skepticism. Like most artists, he finds the money thing the most troublesome, but like few he has learned this general truth: "Nature never composes a scene just right for an artist. Even a mountain must be shifted to one side...