Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honest Italians considered the alleged original Italian total offer of 380 million pounds too high; and honest Britons felt the alleged initial British demand of 580 million pounds too low. As Count Volpi put it, in his now famous "favorite English sentence": "It all depends on how you look at it." 2) The Churchill-Volpi fiscal deal was persistently rumored last week to be only the visible cement of a British-Italian "understanding" with respect to mutual interests in the Near East. Diplomats opined that without a single pen's scratching upon a treaty it was quite possible for Britain...
...Daily News, said today in the leading editorial of that newspaper that the French peasant is incomparably more devout and chast than the rank and file of Americans; that France is infinitely more civilized than we are; that Italy has created art which few of us are fit to look upon. Mr. Stoddard's editorial, signed by him, was entitled "One Last Shot", and was a final volley of the News at prohibition, which the News has consistently attacked during his administration...
...attitude and ideas of the whole country? There would be a constitutional amendment for you There would be the making of a finer citizenry, their religion outlined, their beliefs insured. It would be ridiculous for Americans to go to church because they had to; it is equally ridiculous to look for good in a man's not drinking because he cannot. Connecticut, whatever its faults, never has and, God willing, never will ratify that impediment to the country's ambitions to be civilized, the Eighteenth amendment...
Over "that un," as he recognized the trap in which he had permitted himself to be caught, there passed dismay, mortification and sheepish acquiescence. Commanded by custom "that un" had no course but to accept the derelict's defense and look forward to the official fee of ?1. "That un" was no less a personage than Sir Travers Humphreys, Recorder of Chichester, Senior Counsel to the Treasury at Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) since 1916, one of London's most eminent attorneys. Ordinarily Sir Travers' fees never think of halting short of four figures...
...evidence that special collections of books are not impossible. The vast silences of great reading rooms and the anatomical appearance of glass-floored shadowy stacks do not provide an atmosphere where knowledge will easily lend itself to being humanized. Here may be another case where American universities can wisely look abroad for counsel...