Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said he: "One will be able to speak of a real solution of the Reparations problem only if it does not exceed Germany's economic capacity-in other words, if it enables us to fulfil our obligations by our own power and without endangering the standard of life of our people...
...Manuel Trejo y Morales, who gave Toral the pistol wherewith he slew Obregon, was widely rumored to open up a possibility that the Assassin will be retried in an effort to show that he and Trejo were the instruments of a general Roman Catholic plot against the life of General Obregon...
Past citations still current: Dry Martini, Excess Baggage, The Night Watch, Kriemhild's Revenge, The Patriot, The Crowd, His Private Life...
...powerless against humans, and a mischievous faun whose first prank was to push down into a lake the bell which had just been cast by a certain villager named Heinrich. This Heinrich, like his wife Magda, the schoolmaster, the barber, and the pastor, was a simple peasant. All his life he had worked on the bell to hang in the church tower-so long, so hard that, when the bell crashed down the mountainside into the lake, his heart cracked too, would not mend until Rautendelein kissed him and took him with her into the forest. There, with new youth...
...Wild Duck. Before Shaw, Ibsen was the mightiest of modern playwrights. He learned about life in an apothecary's shop and looked down at it later with savage Nordic melancholy. In The Wild Duck he wrote about a man who was the enemy of most people because he told the truth, even when truth-telling was tantamount to telling tales. Gregers Werle, the son of a rich Norwegian mine-owner, suspected that his libertine father had disposed of an old mistress by marrying her to Hialmar Ekdal, the son of a man whom the libertine had ruined. Gregers Werle...