Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course of Rumanian politics is an orbit, often fiery as a comet's tail, yet at present circular and without end. Just as the earth's solar year extends eternally from January to January, so the Rumanian political cycle starts when M. Jon Bratiano* becomes Premier, and is not full rounded until he has resigned and then resumed that office. Therefore, politically sneaking, it was "January" in Rumania last week, for M. Bratiano had just resumed the Premiership once more. He has been absent from office-not from power-for some 15 months. To sketch the events...
...march) for use the next day. Emmett frowned at the hurry order, went to his hotel, rummaged out of his trunk the rough draft of a tune he had thought up some years before. The words for the tune had been suggested to him by a grumble he had often heard on the lips of circus performers "up North" when nippy autumn nights set in: "I wish - I was in Dixie's land...
...results are only partially manifest. To many young people what used to be considered lapses from the moral code, are now considered to be acts which are as natural as eating and drinking. Indeed, youth often decides on the basis of expediency or worthwhileness, whether sexual intercourse should be indulged in, never thinking of any after effects, because they believe there will be none. They see no harm in it-science will protect them; and science generally does. . . . Whatever we may think of such conduct, the thing for us to notice is that it does exist, and that largely because...
...conclusion let me sound an optimistic note. My contact with the coming generation makes me proud of them. They are in love with life. They are keenly interested in their fellow beings. They seek causes rather than fundamentals. They freely discuss sex morality. They try experiments, often to the horror of their parents-but here is the chief point, 'they live by what they think is right,' not by code. And the thing which is encouraging is that more and more a similar attitude may be seen in the Church. It is getting away from precept and code...
...Significance. Author Jameson contradicts the conceit which makes many women writers concentrate on the opposite sex. Her best characters have all been women. Her themes, it is true, often concern women doing men's work, organizing their lives toward a new freedom. The Lovely Ship in manner bears some resemblance to the writings of Joseph Hergesheimer, but Miss Jameson is more interested in making her people live than in describing ten-course dinners. Her performance in this book is one of almost pure perfection. An intention beautifully realized excuses an occasional prolixity. An infrequent weakness is overbalanced by Miss...