Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week Albanians woke up in a republic, as usual; but before noon they were shouting "Long Live our King...
...Italian sings like a bird in order to live himself out, he paints because he has to, he writes poetry or commits murder because he cannot help it. Finally he embraces Fascism, dazzled by its deification of heroism, and this principle is the highest by which nations can live...
...past, as such, was pleasant. Jed Harris, né Jacob Horowitz, could not remember when his family came from Vienna to live in Newark, N. J. But he could remember living there, in a small and hideous house, and going to high school to get ready for college. Of Yale, too, he had pleasant memories. Not the nostalgic memories of a college hero but the more delicious, spiteful recollection of unpopularity among those whom he has since surpassed. At Yale, Jake Horowitz was not the type. After two years, he left Yale and went to Europe...
...with several companions, to do so. By the time the party reached Paris, they were broke. When they drew lots to see which one should stay in Paris instead of going further, Horowitz got the short straw. Paris, he knew, was no place for a Yale French scholar to live in, so he went to London and stayed there among the chop suey dishes and Chinese laundries of the Limehouse district. When he came back to the U. S., he was a stowaway in the stoker's forecastle of a tramp ship...
Died. Rear Admiral Alfred Meyer-Waldeck, 64, who for two months during the World War defended the German colony of Kaio-chow against the Japanese ("I shall never surrender while I live unless ordered to"); in Bad Kissingen, Germany...