Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they are known and to interpret them as his opinions and affiliations dictate. The English give to the Iron Duke the credit for Waterloo, the Germans acclaim Bluecher, and the French maintain that the battle was not won, that it was only lost. However much written history displeases a nation that considers itself aggrieved, active measures at suppression are rarely taken...
...unquestionably a pity that a nation which has erected immutable monuments to its heroine cannot perpetuate her memory in a life-like one. But that is apparently considered beyond the permissable scope of dramatized history, which is more widely reviewed than the written accounts and further gives the effect of actuality. If in the case of "Dawn" England has refused to add to national pride by premature sanction, then to it goes the greater glory of pioneering in international sportsmanship...
...only speculate as to the treatment accorded the Great Temperance Movement by one who was not brought up in the American atmosphere of W. C. T. U. tent meetings, Carrie Nation, and soda pop. A mere St. George-and-the-dragon plot would be trite, unless handled in a novel manner. On second thought, it seems that the choice of the epic form has not all the advantages of some other methods of treatment. The French epic has been dormant since Voltaire's Henriade; and the American epic is still unborn; this leaves the opera as the logical form...
Fortunately, King Alexander of Jugoslavia not only reigns but rules. He is in touch with political leaders of all factions and is rated keen at sensing trends. The weight of his personality held the nation and the stock exchange at Belgrade steady, last week, amid the following vicissitudes...
...Mencken, writer, was told indirectly that his influence among the youth of the nation had been hung in a closet. "Even in a freshman class when one ventures a 'Menckenism,' the others smile," said Robert Hillyer, poet, teacher at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., who is going to the Harvard faculty next autumn...