Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country up & up to the ultimate fulcrum on which Europe's future turns. This may be II Duce's unlucky 13th year, but with the hammer blows of 52 nations ringing out in an anvil chorus of sanctions last week, it was significant to the point of paradox that not Italy but Ethiopia was still being called "the underdog...
...paradox of the crisis last week was that Belgium's three major parties, the Catholics, the Socialists and the Liberals, all contributed Ministers to the Cabinet of "National Union" formed by Professor van Zeeland at the invitation of His Majesty. The politicians' theory seemed to be that, since all three parties had pledged themselves to the voters to maintain the belga at its 1926 value in relation to gold, they all might as well cooperate in devaluing it further. Never was the clear mandate of an entire electorate more flatly disregarded. Soon the Chamber gave the van Zeeland...
...Byron, Romantic Paradox," is a defense of the man as an artist who "knew what he was doing and why." It forms a stimulating and novel approach, a treatment equally without impudence and undue awe of the glamorous genius who today is commonly either relentlessly attacked or blindly upheld...
...study which he dedicates "above all to John Livingston Lowes, master and friend," Mr. Calvert attempts an explanation of the "romantic paradox" of Byron through an analysis of his poems. Byron, Mr. Calvert holds, did not at one time depend upon the school of Pope and at another skip blithely to the romantic manner. The critic presents a consistent Byron, a man who contained in himself elements of both classicist and romanticist, at all times sincere; and not spasmodically, but progressively ridding himself of the superficial aspects of each until he reached his height in "Don Juan...
...himself. Doris Duke Cromwell & husband started for Bombay to resume their honeymoon. A United Pressman quoted her as saying: "I felt, in meeting this world-famous advocate of peace and nonviolence, that I had talked to a Messiah, comparable to Confucius, Buddha, Christ or Mohammed. There seemed an amazing paradox in this Hindu Messiah's opposition to what he felt to be the oppression of Great Britain, one of the most powerful of the nations which practice the precepts of Jesus Christ...