Word: pan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austrians, led by most of their daily journals, have shaken off the spell of Prussian mesmerism and dealt a decided blow to the hopes of an Austro-German State . . . hopes which were not merely fictional, but were worked out on an absolute plan with characteristic German efficiency. Pan-Germanism is the name for this idea which would unite Austria and Germany into one; it has its leaders and thinkers, who were running for Austrian offices in the elections; and they made it clear that, once elected they would proceed to put their idea into operation. They asked the support...
...ordinarily, a retailer of shoes or anything else. In the present case it had shoes manufactured for it in various factories, and in immense quantities on the speculative chance that after war Europe would provide a greedy and almost unlimited market for them. But the chance did not pan out. Badly as Europe needed shoes, it could not pay the prices asked. They were high for the American market. They were made doubly high for the European market by the adverse exchange rates on the United States. So the great stock of around 1,500,000 pairs is now thrown...
...Nicaragua didn't accept a mandate without bloodshed and protests. How can Mexico? You tell us that "war may be an amusing national industry, but it is rarely a profitable or a healthy one.' And then you propose to send us headlong into a Mexican and thus into a Pan-American...
...elephantiasis of Serbian national pretensions, in spite of the various "unalterable stands:" determinedly held by various parties, common sense has prevailed in the Adriatic. Fiume will not form part of a new Roman Empire reaching from Gibraltar to the Hellespont. Nor will it form part of a Pan-Slavia extending from the White Sea to the Alps. Undoubtedly enthusiastic extremists on both sides will be bitterly and vociferously disappointed. But the world at large is thoroughly relieved over the ending of the impasse. A buffer state, protected by the League of Nations, is the only safe solution of this difficulty...
Miss Elsie Ferguson is exciting a great deal of discussion with her performance at the Morosco Theatre of Arnold Bennett's "Sacred and Profane Love." When the play was first put on the boards in London, the London "Pan" spilled a little ink as follows...