Word: interpretation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will make more convincing the impassioned descriptions of Rhenish scenery which occur so frequently throughout Germanic literature and which by their very reiteration often arouse an incident skepticism in the un travelled student. Perhaps more difficult to grasp than the appearance of the country position of the student to interpret side of a nation is an understanding of the nature of its people. A language as difficult for the average American as is German often encourages the rather superficial opinion that those whose native tongue it is must be of a corresponding stodginess. This dishis own ineptitude as the natural...
...Caroline Francke is writing, not about the vengeance of romantic deities upon heroes, but about tiny people and their puny, terrible grief. So honestly does she do this and so honestly, if not brilliantly, do Eric Dressier and Ruth Easton, as well as the minor members of the cast, interpret her observations that the sorrows of small characters assume their true enormity and depth. There are moments of murmur about wage-slaves and capitalists which injure but do not destroy the sometimes strained, but plausible and exciting, sadness of Exceeding Small...
...another group of men remained to be invited to the Conference of Major Industries. Meat-packers announced a list of seven speakers who should interpret, jointly and severally, "The Current Situation." Impressive were names, titles, themes, as follows: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President, American Construction Council (Building and Construction); Harold Higgins Franklin Swift, Swift & Co. (Meat-packing); Myron Charles Taylor, Chairman Finance Committee, U. S. Steel Corp. (Iron and Steel); Charles Franklin Kettering, President, General Motors Research Corp. (Automobiles); Walter Sherman Gifford, President A. T. & T. (Communication); Frank Brett Noyes, President, The Associated Press (Printing and Publishing); Charles Edwin Mitchell, President...
Georges Clemenceau, spirited and robust, spent his 87th birthday frustrating eager newsmen. "Journalists now give their opinions to the public," he said, "rather than ask the public for theirs. I belong to the great public. Once I knew how to talk, now I have learned silence. Let me interpret my own silence...
Someone is forever niggling about the Monroe Doctrine. Last week the Council of the League of Nations was faced with a note from Costa Rica requesting the Council officially to "interpret" the Doctrine and state just what it means...