Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a depraved note throughout the volume. Cleopatra writes, "let not my enemies, therefore, condemn me too readily. Perhaps, they, too, if their sense of the futility of life were as keen as mine, would seek forgetfulness in a like orgy of pleasures. My conduct is nothing more than a gesture of angry defiance flung into the face of the gods. I can never forgive them for making me mortal while reserving immortality for themselves. If they can look down upon me and laugh at my helplessness, I will show them that I, too, can laugh at myself...
...climbed into a French fighting plane, a 300-horsepower Nieuport; did loop-the-loops, head-spins, side-drifts, grapevines, fluttering-leaves over Paris, on the day he told French senators: "That [Atlantic] flight of mine has not done anything to advance the cause of civilization. Yet I am not unaware that it marks a date...
...Honorable Fascist Deputies," he said, "I am very sorry and profoundly humiliated to announce to you that my speech today will not be as short as mine usually are . . . I need to take the Italian nation and place it in front of itself...
...write in my communications to the President of the United States the words 'great and good friend,' I must be a great and good friend so long as there are no motives between his Government and mine for changing such an attitude. ... We must refuse the permission requested...
Sirs: To a relative of mine who happens be in Riga, Latvia I send frequently your delightful periodical. I herewith quote a criticism on the subject of an article that appeared in an issue several weeks ago [TIME, March 28] to the effect that the German Envoy to Latvia was making himself and his country popular by taking to the local customs and drinking beer with the natives: "TIME seems a little misinformed. Dr. Koester has been here since Latvia was acknowledged as such by the Germans-not three months ago as TIME has it. It is true...