Word: fulcrum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...China is drifting steadily toward the wretched and tragic goal of final destruction; but, like Turkey, she will take her revenge by being the fulcrum of an international rivalry as bitter as the stakes are large. America can arrest this deadly drift by encouragement of the Chinese toward the rehabilitation of their country. Trouble with China will surely lead to a fight with Japan...
...best of it. We have Sir Herbert in two lights-professional and personal. Mr. Seymour reviews "Henry VIII" with the assurance and occasionally with the overflowing florescence of Mr. H. T. Parker of the Transcript. Sometimes we doubt his phrases, "a rambling story-play of no real central fulcrum"; sometimes his judgement, "in the speech of farewell he achieves the superlative work of genius"; sometimes his grammar, "it all seems to just miss being superb." Yet on the whole Mr. Seymour writes with sincerity and apprehension, and the review, particularly when dealing with the characters, is stimulating...