Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hsieh Chin, also a statesman, fell into imperial disfavor, was made drunk and entombed under a bank of snow. Tu Fu admired his own admirable verse so much that he recommended it for malarial fever. Fang Shu Shao, knowing his time had come, got into his coffin and wrote: "My...
"When I was about 14 and going to school in Berlin, I came for the first time into contact with a Nazi belonging to the Hitler Jugend. He went to school with me and once invited me up to his place. His father, who had been an officer in the...
Language, to the credit of Eisenstein, is no barrier for a foreigner's complete understanding of his work, for his camera, combined with the tumultuous score of Sergei Prokofieff, fully expresses the emotional current, and the plot is distinctly visual. Photographic effects, indeed, are the strongest element in the picture...
Czar to Commissar. "Just as the warnings of James Monroe were directed emphatically against the territorial encroachments of Imperial Russia on the North American continent, so ... the non-colonization of new areas by Communist aggression is now declared to be a cardinal principle of American foreign policy. . . .
Two years later the country went to war. As Britain's people buckled down to their grim existence, they demanded more & more the comfort of seeing their imperial darling. "Why didn't you bring the Princess?" war-plant workers often shouted at the King and Queen. "We want...