Word: happening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator was somewhat disturbed when Senator Glass asked him what would happen, under the treaty, if the League of Nations took coercive measures to settle the Paraguay-Bolivian dispute. He ran his hands through his hair, hesitated, said that he did not think the U. S. could intervene provided the League did not attempt to overthrow the Paraguayan or Bolivian governments. He added, however, that European governments had previously used force in South America without U. S. objection, and that what ever we could do in South America with out the treaty we could continue to do with the treaty...
Prisons are abnormal places. Most things that happen in them would be incongruous in society at large. Conversely, much that happens in society at large would seem incongruous in a prison. One evening last week there were three episodes at Sing Sing, New York's famed penitentiary, of which the most horrible was the least incongruous...
...that happen?" asked the judge...
...published a book called Ananias (Harper's). Biblical Ananias lied to God. Artistic Ananias deceives himself and the public, lies to Apollo. He paints handsome, superficial canvases for popular and social success. U. S. museums, states Critic Pach, are full of them, particularly the Metropolitan.* What rather should happen is the cultivation of public taste by impact with fresh, live modes of expression...
Delicately sentimental like all of Miss Abbott's stories they are; gay little love stories strung upon the warm thread of the Christmas feeling, actually quite unlikely, yet fundamentally quite possible, just like fairy tales or Christmas itself. They tell of what never will happen, but what one feels might and ought...