Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wednesday evening at 8.30 o'clock, the foreign students of the University are to gather for the first meeting of the International Council, which is to be organized on a less formal plan than in former years...
Caucasian Love (Amkino). There is further angry propaganda in this one, directed now at the Cossacks whom the Tsar sent to drive the people of Tersk out of their village. The situation is presented less consciously and vehemently than in The New Babylon (see above). Good shots: the illiterate Chechens signing a document by pressing it with thumbs first rubbed on a sooty pot; a crowd of people on a mountain road; villagers squatting with bowed heads in the road as they await a charge by cavalry...
...elastic substance is one which returns to its original size and shape after stretching. Rubber does not do that. Pull a piece of rubber, release it, measure it. It is deformed. Old rubbers are bigger than new ones. Steel is far more elastic than rubber, but of course much less stretchable. Glass is probably more elastic than steel. Quartz is an almost perfect elastic. Hence its use in nice measuring instruments such as telescopes...
With Paris, never his home town, Louis had no sympathy and less patience. Once he made a speech to some learned scholars of Paris' famed Sorbonne. Said he: "You are a bad lot. You lead bad lives, with the great fat trollops you keep!" With England he fought, when he thought he could win; made treaties, when he thought he could win that way. When the great Houses of Burgundy, Bourbon, Brittany, Lorraine, Artois, Alençon, Armagnac, Anjou leagued against him, he played them off one against the other, overcame them gradually by force, craft or bribery. When...
Louis XI was no picture-book king. He had "a long ugly nose . . . a pair of oblique eyes too deeply set, thin lips, a powerful jaw . . . a jutting chin;" was less than middle height, bald, thin-shanked, shabbily dressed. A great talker himself, though direct and blunt, he required others to be the soul of brevity. Like many autocrats, he preferred plain people to the aristocracy. His favorite hat, high-peaked, shapeless, banded with leaden images of saints, was famed. But once at least he ordered a new one. He wrote to his General of Finances: "I have forgotten...