Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interior: Benito Mussolini), black-shirted, truncheon-swinging Fascist Militia raided bookstores, bundled all editions of the works of Gorky, Gogol, Dostoievski, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, and even Jack London into vans. Official reason: "Low-priced editions of these works have injured the sale of books by modern Italian writers. They often contain seed for Communist propaganda...
...Cuba Cane asked for a receiver as first step toward reorganization. A prime motive for proceeding through a receivership was suspected to be so that the remaining 16% of the debenture holders will be "frozen out," thereby prevented from disrupting plans by demanding payment Jan. 1. Although conditions have often seemed hopeless in the sugar industry, many a grower believes that the lowest point has been reached and that from now on returns will be satisfactory. With the increase in population, sugar consumption has steadily increased at an average annual rate of about 7%. While production soared much swifter than...
...gloomy, chill St. Gile's Cathedral at Edinburgh wherein John Knox had often flayed that Mary who was Queen of Scots, Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of the Union Theological Seminary of New York, last week told 6,000 Scots that Christendom is doomed...
...detective story. This is odd but it is odder still that, although Louis Parker's old play is no more than effective theatrical plum pudding, it should seem at times almost literary. Both of these facts are principally due to George Arliss, who has played Disraeli so often on the stage that if set back 60 years he could probably double for him in the House of Commons. He gets across the complicated plot, making you believe in the crafty little minister who loved peacocks, gardening, and Queen Victoria, and whose servants were all Russian spies. Best shot: Arliss...
...Often when the West comes to the East (even when the West comes bearing gifts) the visit is made with the assumption that all things occidental are superior, that all things oriental are deplorable. No such error was made in Yenching University's architecture. Here buildings were so designed by able Manhattanite Henry Killam Murphy as to harmonize with the country and the civilization of which they are a part. There are Forbes, Wheeler, Gamble, and Finley Dormitories, but despite their Anglo-Saxon names these buildings have the blue-tiled pagoda roofs, white walls, red lacquer columns, carved porches...