Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gale blew the North Sea against Europe with such force that tides rose three feet higher than usual and ten small steamers swamped and sank with a loss of life estimated at 46. The Swedish freighter Scandsuvia was towed by tugs into Boulogne, France, with her cargo shifted, leaning over almost as far as did the Vestris...
Wrote the next day famed Editor & Cinema Critic Mario Carli in Rome's Impero: "Perhaps past conditions approached those shown . . . but in Mussolini's Italy certainly nothing of that nature exists. Gypsies, underworld characters, prostitution, cheating, misery, vice, overdressed peasants, gamin life, people in rags, filthiness, superstition, thuggery, human landscapes immersed in endless fog-even the classic sun of Italy was obliterated by the Fox directors. Can you imagine an Italian seascape perpetually steeped...
...wily intrigue, upset the next-to-last Poincare Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 12). Last week the Prime Minister took revenge. At his nod the Senate ousted rich, financier Joseph Caillaux from the seat on the Senate Finance Committee which he has held almost ever since he entered public life...
...factory at St. Petersburg, during the slack winter season on his father's farm, and was almost at once fired with the pure flame of Revolution. His success in interpreting citified Marxian doctrines to peasant friends at home was phenomenal. Soon enough, however, the Imperial Police transformed his life into a long, incessant struggle punctuated with arrests and finally with banishment to Tiflis and later Reval. Thus the President of Russia is of the honored Revolutionary Old Guard-a paladin of 53 whose sufferings have given him the look of 65, unless one notices that only his beard...
...published a biography of Stephen A. Douglas, has delved deeply in to early Americana. At Yale, he was Larned Professor of American History. Since 1926 he has edited his Dictionary. The Dictionary will contain in 20 volumes the names of all persons who have made important contributions to American life. No living persons will be mentioned and no persons who "have not lived in the territory now known as the United States." Thus foreigners like the Revolutionary Marquis de La Fayette will undoubtedly find their place in a later volume. As it is the first volume already includes such names...