Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides functioning officially as President of Columbia Univesity, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler is a Wet Republican and, on occasion, political dogmatist. Last week he strode into a small routine meeting of the Riverside Republican Club in Manhattan, said that President Coolidge will "declare his unwillingness" to accept the Republican 1928...
Young Turkey is compact, and the dictature of Mustafa Kemal, the Ghazi ("The Victorious"), is absolute over such territory as is left. There is not the occasion for internal strife and wholesale massacre that there once was. ¶ Though the leopard cannot change its spots, the Young Turks naturally feel...
Something must be done about it. This is the agreement of judges and priests, of femimists and supporters of the double standard. And there agreement ends. To this breach comes Keyserling, bringing with him The Correct Statement of the Marriage Problem. In his role of philosopher-guide he unfolds four...
...voluminous quotation of Napoleon's words is from many sources, varying in authenticity from soberest records to the completely apocryphal. Where Napoleon fails to leave words of moment on a weighty occasion, Ludwig soliloquizes for him. These is scarcely a clue to the authority for a single passage, though occasionally Bourienne is mentioned. There is not even a modest bibliographical list...
Before tackling Nietzsche it is almost essential to have a general notion of the man's life and thought in order to understand what he attempted to do. Without such a notion one is sure to get lost in the confusion of styles, aphorisms, hymns, epithets and curses that are...