Word: fragments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wellington Koo, Acting Foreign Minister (in name the present ruler of China, because there is no President, only a fragment of a Cabinet, no Prime Minister, no Parliament and no likelihood of there being one), received a note from the Diplomatic Corps at Peking on the bandit incident of last May.* The note was signed by the U. S., Great Britain, France, Japan, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba. The imposing document was delivered at the Chinese Foreign Office by Senhor Frei tas, Portuguese Minister to China and doyen of the Diplomatic Corps...
...mass of involved constructions. Mr. Cozzens's "Two Arts" is a tar more competent piece of work, exhibiting the lyric smoothness we demand of modern sonneteers: it is unfortunate, however, that he had to employ a combination of two weak rhymes in his sextet. In his limpid classic fragment called "Separation", Mr. James Sherry Mangau gives us the poignant sensations of a lover deploring the absence of his Hawatian princess, whose sonorous name appropriately terminates the simple lyric...
...know, you have produced the first successful helicopter." This is a fragment of the congratulatory message sent by Thomas A. Edison offering assistance in further experiments to Dr. Bothezaat, who broke the world's helicopter record at McCook's Field, Dayton, Ohio, by remaining in the air two minutes and 45 seconds at a height of 15 feet...
Another interesting French manuscript is a fragment of a Bible Moralisee, probable executed in Parts for St. Louis, King of France, about 1240. The main decoration consists of "eight large roundel linked together in two columns in diapered backgrounds, containing illustrations of the Apocalypse alternating with mystical interpretations. The Latin text and Commentaries are placed in narrow strips on the left of each column of illustrations and both text and illustrations are enclosed in a border of gold and colors...
Should we not pity those whose uninitiate hands can mould less than the fragment of their visions; encourage and sustain, that their hands shall more firmly hold the chisel which may carve from witless stone an inspiration for our posterity...