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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have not the slightest idea what you mean when you say 'Locarno' or 'the Spirit of Locarno.' If you mean peaceful relations, then that is what we have been seeking for a long time. . . . The future will show if the Locarno agreement really has the pacific character attributed to it by those participating in it, or whether some of them will not regret this work after some time. . . . I may say that Russia has no intention of forming a group of states facing the Baltic sea or the North...
...little pad with incredible rapidity. "Get that filled," he says with a cheery nod, and drives away in his buggy or his Isotta limousine. The person lying sick tries to read the hieroglyphics scrawled on the bit of paper. Those venomous little curlicues, what do they mean? Of course the chances are that the physician was an honest fellow, but-well, there is something sinister about a prescription, the sick one thinks. It might mean absolutely anything. Suppose the doctor had taken a dislike to him; he might have written...
...play itself, it is neither very light nor very heavy. The management bills it as an ingenious comedy of the artistic temperament, which perhaps it is, if you know what they mean by that. Assuredly there is nothing either very vital or very comical about the methods which a Grand Opera star employs to regain her family. It is just pleasing fare, which you can go to and enjoy any old time. Unfortunately the talents of Miss Yurka are more at a premium...
What do you mean by inflicting upon a general audience four columns of sectarian slush (pp. 20-21, Nov. 16) ? If sect barons fight among themselves about matters connected with politics or ethics or immaculate conceptions, such rot may perhaps be called legitimate news when stated in your own finely compressed style. But descriptive matter about "elevating the bun," bell ringing, genuflections, etc., in a journal like yours is STEALING THE SPACE YOUR SUBSCRIBERS ARE ENTITLED...
...indulged in. M. Briand's address was the only one either greatly moving or notably significant. Rising to his full height, he cried: "At last the spirit of solidarity takes the place of that of distrust and suspicion. . . . Opposite me I behold the German delegates. That does not mean that I do not remain a good Frenchman! They are good Germans! But in the light of these treaties we are good Europeans only! . . . By and over our signatures we declare for peace...