Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Made in Germany, imported to France, is the cult of Nudism, a mulligan stew of vegetarianism, physical culture and pagan worship. The outstanding feature is that all devotees must live in a state of complete spectacular nudity.* Much publicity has been given the Nudist colony on an island in the Seine near Paris. Lively have been their arguments, moral, economic, religious, with Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe over the matter of bathing trunks. Some weeks ago a young French reporter paid a secret visit to the Nudist colony. So depressing, so disillusioning was his published account of the flabby spectacle...
Somewhere I have heard that the President has instituted a committee for the investigation of law enforcement. Also I have heard at some time that "people who live in glass houses . . . etc.," but, suppose "Charity begins at home...
...withdrawal of Japanese troops from Shantung did not represent a "retreat" in Japan's foreign policy. Baron Tanaka frowned, twiddled his toes, replied: "There has been no retreat, because there never was any necessity for retreating. Our policy, now as ever, has been based on a desire to live at peace with the people of China. . . . Certain people however invented a theory regarding the government's policy at the time it came into power, and now to fit the theory to the facts, talk of a 'retreat...
...that precise instant the federal cavalry dashed to the rescue. The rebels, foiled, fell back. It was all very much like cinema but such things do happen where Latins live...
...Hugh Greene, sallow, 70, wears sensible shoes but contracts cancer anyway. The three months remaining to her to live she would wish six, since in six she expects a grandnephew or niece. But she exults over the thought that her unborn heir will get an estate of 2,534 acres...