Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Protocol. The Protocol to the Covenant of the League of Nations, designed to enforce arbitration, security and disarmament (TIME, Oct. 13) was thought to have died a natural death. It was freely predicted that Britain would ask for more time to consider the protocol proposals, owing to the fact that...
"Trotzky is temperamentally a dictator who believes himself destined to rule the world. Zinoviev is a gay liver, a lover of wine, champagne and good cheer. He has suffered a lot and knew privation in his youth; and now abandons himself licentiously to pleasures. The dancers of the old Russian...
The dispute was engendered by the Poles painting the post boxes in the red and white colors of the Polish Republic. The Germans, outraged, retaliated by repainting them in the black, white and red colors of Imperial Germany. The fiery ire of Poles and Germans was temporarily abated by the...
Music: "Apart from reading, the population relies chiefly upon sports and music for recreation. By music I mean serious music. We even have the beginnings of opera. The performances are out of doors. Almost the Imperial Opera in Petrograd are now in Palestine." Movies: "You can't feed the...
Long before Chaucer began to build the English language, long before Buonarroti sketched his plans for St. Peter's, a British islander named Nicholas Breakspear became priest, then Abbot, then Cardinal, then Legate, then Pope, assuming the grand Roman Imperial name of Adrian (Hadrian) IV. And never before or...