Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...policy cost France her interests in Egypt; he became involved in a religious dispute, which, if he had not fallen from power, might have had serious consequences; once he resigned a cabinet post in a fit of anger; in the war of 1870 he helped the Germans to win through hampering his own generals. Nevertheless, he did much useful work. After the 1870 debacle he reorganized the army and introduced conscription. He created the General Staff and the Supreme Council as it was during the Great War. As Minister of Public Works he constructed 2,000 miles of railway...
Striving for calm, deliberate portraiture, the skill of Mr. Robinson has drown in "Roman Bartholow" a narrative prose-poem, versified in sober lines of meditative characterization. Sophistication echoes through its pages, weary effete, and unenlivening: and yet the characters and plot are such as fit most aptly to his purposes: a modern novel spared. Philosophies and passions are expounded in dialogue that wisely never tries to sound like human talk. He has discovered a way of simplifying subleties that makes them stark and stubbornly incisive; and even his intensest episodes embody wan denial of emotion...
...story of Bartholow is human matter fit for the pen of James of Meredith not unlike "Modern Love" in theme and manner but Meredith devoid of ornament. Bartholow, celebrating liberation of soul and intellect, discovers late the treachery of the liberating Raven "a resident savior domiciled", serene, a hypocrite redeemed by understanding. The woman, Gabrielle, whose tragedy is just a foil for Bartholow's reveals how superficial insincerity can stultify a spirit over-prone to casual conformity, until it dies unnourished. Like a "confidant" the other character--perhaps the post--is an incongruous philosopher who talks a Latinized American appropriate...
Aside from the outward manifestations in the Ruhr, the week's most important event in diplomatic circles was the British answer to the German note. It is evident that the British Government saw fit to seize a favorable opportunity to change its stand on the whole Ruhr question. Hitherto Great Britain has maintained an attitude of despairing neutrality upon a question which vitally affects her own interests; now she is determined to have her say in the ultimate peace offering that the Germans, sooner or later, are bound to make. The propitious moment arrived. France views with no inconsiderable...
...picture is slightly notable for its introduction of Ricardo Cortez to the breathless multitude. Cortez was acquired by Jesse Lasky to fit in the niche left vacant when Rodolph Valentino resigned. Critical opinion estimated Ricardo as slightly less beautiful than Rodolph...