Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Budapest, Bela Morvay, clown, put mad new touches upon his old familiar act at the Volksgarten Meirkus, convulsed his audience as never before, worked up to a climax where he imitated a man committing suicide by eating white powder from a little paper bag, fell to the ground writhing comically, waved away other clowns who rushed to his assistance, cried, "Let me die!" and did so, grinning. Dismissed, he had failed to find...
Presumably the courts will hold that the Doctor is no swindler be cause he supports the Dawes Plan-as the least of many possible evils-and has therefore contributed to the total devaluation of the pre-War paper mark and its replacement by the new gold mark...
Briefly, the Treasury was instructed to transfer $90,000,000† to the Banco d'ltalia, on the basis of which two and a half billion paper lire will be retired from the six and a half billion now circulating. Similar deflation will be continued, year by year, as an annual budgetary expense. Meanwhile the Banco d' Italia will be given special supervisory powers over all other Italian banks to compel them to accumulate a surplus equal to 40% of their capitalization...
...sensitive folk. And always house furnishings are noted, with the piercing significance and tenderness that made Amy Lowell so distinctly a poet of her time and place, racy. Titles intimate the subjects: "The House in Main Street," "The Note Book in the Gate-Legged Table," "The Rosebud Wall-Paper," "The Real Estate Agent's Tale." The title of the collection came, perhaps, out of Amy Lowell's love for a fresh breeze off the ocean, bringing rain to dry New England in hot summer. It might stand for herself, who blew with sharp zest through lives and times...
Back from Europe came Olga Samaroff, able pianist turned kindly critic for the New York Evening Post, wrote last week for her paper a very earnest article. Said she: "I doubt if anything could be more depressing to a musician of European education than to make a journey of investigation into musical conditions overseas today...