Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With dubious incredulity and then with exhilaration Germans learned, last week, that in Paris students of the Latin Quarter were rushing up and down the Grands Boulevards shouting and successfully inciting passersby to shout, "Vive L'Alle-magne!" (Long Live Germany...
Midwives still live and thrive in rural districts, announced Dr. Joe P. Bowdoin of the Georgia Board of Health. Many counties in Georgia have no physicians. Of the 65,000 babies born in 1927, about one-third were delivered by midwives, most of whom were old, ignorant, superstitious Negroes. Dr. Bowdoin told of the health board's work in instructing and certifying the 5,000 midwives, accompanied by a gratifying drop in deaths from childbirth...
...into greater emotion, and they were shortly whisked off on the conventional Riviera wedding trip. That Octavia detested the still-born placidity of the Riviera made more difficult the time-honored difficulties of early married adjustment. But, back in England, the understanding professor assists her with literary quotations to live with her husband happily ever afterward...
...city of Vienna celebrated Beethoven's anniversary last year; for Schubert its populace has an even more friendly adoration. There will be concerts there all summer in his honor and most of the houses will wear flags. The dead composer will receive almost as much honor as a live aviator...
...destroyers and torpedo boats and one, pre-War German cruiser would be a puny opponent for the modern, potent Battle Fleet of Italy. Yet last week in a score of Jugoslav cities and towns student hotheads, marched, demonstrated, rioted, skirmished with the police, and shouted: "Down with Mussolini!" "Long live King Alexander [of Jugoslavia]!" "Death to Fascismo!"; and "Down with the Treaty of Nettuno...