Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gate opposite Leavitt and Pierce's at exactly 1.15 o'clock, and mentioned having posed for a Pathe News photographer. He diminished his stack of "Welcomes" by five hundred in less than three quarters of an hour, he said, and then changed his stand to the side-walk in front of the Coop. He also mentioned having posed for a Herald photographer...
This statement was made yesterday by Robert E. Rogers '09, to a CRIMSON reporter, when the M. I. T. professor was questioned with regard to his remark during an address to Technology seniors last Commencement, when he advised them to "put up a big front, and cultivate snobbery." At the same time he pointed to Harvard undergraduates as an example of what snobbery...
Literary circles in many countries have hummed for months with praise of Arnold Zweig's The Case of Sergeant Grischa, sharp, beautifully written novel of War life on Germany's Eastern Front. But the praise of literary circles meant little to portly highbuttoned Lieut. Col. Walther von Bogen, editor of the sedate Journal of German Nobility, who, reading novelist Zweig's book, found to his horror and amazement that it was vulgar, pacifistic, shockingly outspoken, likely to cause discontent among German troops. Editor von Bogen wrote a review in which he said that Novelist Zweig...
...individual stands out preeminent in moulding world feeling about war. It is Erich Maria Remarque, author of "All Quiet on the Western Front." His novel is not pleasant reading. His theme is the horrors of war, the total futility of the conflict, and its deadening effect open a whole generation which can never forget the nightmares of the war years...
Remarque has taken a whole reading world into the front line trenches with him, and those readers have returned with the feeling that such horrors must not happen again. Probably no book of this type has ever created such a widespread impression or worked so profoundly for the cause of peace. In eight brief months, it has become a classic. Long since translated into English and French, it is now being published in twenty-four languages, so that those who have fought may recall the horrors of war, and that those who belong to the new generations may be forewarned...