Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That volcano of unrest in European politics, the Mediterranean district, has recently displayed unmistakable signs of increasing activity. To the three great Western countries, England, France, and Italy, who hold large stakes in the lands surrounding this inland sea, have been added the two Balkan states, Roumania and Jugo Slavia, who emerged into the Class B Power class after the World War and to a certain extent replaced in the politics of the Near East dismembered Austria and red Russia...
...this were the whole story, the Golden Day could not have existed at all. But the new nation had its hour of glory. It occurred in that brief moment, when there was a nice balance between farm and factory, when maritime contact with the Orient and the Mediterranean was widening the native horizon, when--to quote the author--"the inherited mediaeval civilization of New England dried up, leaving behind a sweet, acrid aroma ... when in the act of passing away, the Puritan begot the transcendentalist." Emerson, Thorean, and Whitman rediscovered the treasure house of the past and envisioned...
Alexander I is one of the few monarchs still potent in affairs of state. He suddenly paid a visit to his father-in-law, King Ferdinand of Rumania. At the same time the French Mediterranean fleet concentrated off Rumania's chief port, Constanta, To excited correspondents it seemed that King Alexander might have asked for and received a French naval demonstration to remind Rumania not to fall in too closely with Premier Mussolini's plans...
...Officials of my company expressed no surprise upon hearing that Mrs. W. D. Cornish of Manhattan, 80-year-old widow of one of our vice presidents and since his death an indefatigable traveler, had arrived safely at Johannesburg, South Africa, after a 4,000-mile motor trip from the Mediterranean shore of the continent, through the interior, accompanied by no white escort save her cousin, a Miss Hooper. Despatches related how, camping one night near a native road gang, Mrs. Cornish heard a man-eating lion roar, then die of bullets; how, lost in wildest Ukamba, her reserve machine broke...
STORE OF LADIES-Louis Golding -Knopf ($2.50). Bulls, despite the talk, do not frequent china shops. But boxers do, sometimes, invade polite society. Wordy but facile Author Golding is here engaged, and most engaging, with Jimmy Burton, Burmondsey bruiser, on Mediterranean shores. The warm widow whose puny son he is physically cultivating shows her gratitude for favors absently bestowed, by saving him from an emotional cropper over a "toff" (lady). Back he goes to "frail,, wistful but sublimely impudent" Emma Creamer, of Poplar (equivalent: Hoboken). . . . Louis Golding, whose eloquent tonsure was lately a feature of Oxford University, has written with...