Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chalifour was unacquainted with the customs of the land, and he decided to enclose a check with his note of objection. He wrote: "It is incredible that a Nation like America should descend so low as to collect taxes from the untaxable. Kindly return this check soon as you have ascertained that I am not a citizen and cannot vote...
...like Mr. Ade, was a complete master of one environment, and within his peculiar limitations a deep and a sincere artist. Much nonsense, of course, has been talked about the bitter smile under the painted grin he wore, and many of the critical faculty could never restrain a condescending note when they spoke, in Mr. Mencken's phrase, of the golden heart that beat beneath the motley. So long as our illuminate gently pat the heads of direct, self possessed, and mature artists and curl their lips at homespun, so long must we be judged in the world...
Chancellor Dollfuss approached the British and French Legations, asked them to withdraw the note. They refused. Promptly he summoned Parliament to extraordinary session, invited the foreign Press, read the entire secret ultimatum, and slapped it down on the rostrum in front of him with the statement that Austria, a sovereign nation, does not answer such notes at all. Four months later Engelbert Dollfuss was in Britain, a darling of the British Press & public during the World Economic Conference. But in the meantime the world had awakened to the folly and menace of Hitlerism. Today no one can pluck the capercailzie...
...scenery pipes, is soon let down on the stage and found to be dead. Although attired in one of the production's costumes, she does not belong to the company. Bruised and burned with acid, the victim still clutches a corsage of orchids attached to which is a note in German threatening, of all people, the girl whose scream discovered...
Died, Robert C. Reid, 50, San Francisco businessman, brother-in-law of Governor James Rolph Jr. of California; when he leaped 14 stories from San Francisco's Balfour Building. He left a note: "I have felt my brain deteriorating...