Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. During the past month, the Bolshevik Government granted the same privileges to private traders as it was giving to State trusts, permitted long land leases to the peasants and allowed them, under minor restrictions, to hire labor, granted business men the right freely to engage in industry, proposed the suspension of State control of private banks (TIME...
...revived Rosmersholm was dull. This dullness was possibly due to the insufficiency of Margaret Wycherly in the part of Rebecca West, and to the propaganda which was Ibsen's material. He had seen in his native land political dissension which was ripping the fabric of its history. He protested against this in a play...
...lively platinum boom has set in at Johannesburg, South Africa, which in spirit and extent threatens to rival the Transvaal gold boom of the 90's. The Afrikanders have gone platinum mad. Scores of new platinum companies have been organized, some merely on the basis of leasing land in the "platinum district," their shares have been listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and have shot up to 10 or 15 times their original price in a few weeks...
...Tuileries whose grave silence was only faintly rippled by the roar of Doumergue's cannon, the Spring Salon opened its doors. Because the Exposition made space hard to get, the Salon was small, the work of a high quality. Soberness of execution, startling in such a land, roused as much alarmed comment as the single extravagance of the Royal Academy's exhibition (see below). For the first time since 1913, the exhibition escaped from the influence of the military; hard horizons, khaki browns diminished; dead men in rutted lanes gave place to somnolent picnickers under willow trees. Sculpture...
...Pittsburgh's skyscraper-to-be said: "To plant the spirit of achievement, ... by a great high building ... to interpret the spirit of Pittsburgh ... to build a memorial to the achievers of Pittsburgh" (TIME, Nov. 17). Loafer: "The soul in cubic feet. Achievement by tonnage. Unquestioning faith in millionaires and land-values. Gothic doodads for moments of sentiment...