Word: pf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edwin Denby, widowed last week President Coolidge telegraphed: "I am deeply grieved. . . . His life was an outstanding example of good citizenship . . . displaying qualities pf heart and mind which endeared...
...powerful indictment of autocratic statecraft, a pageant of heterogeneous border peoples, and a human document of uncanny understanding. The jocund vitality which lured Grischa to mad escape is no less vivid than his fatalistic reluctance to escape again. Insignificant "case," Grischa is the symbol that rouses the interest pf villagers, the prophecies of Hebrew elders, the affection of restive German soldiers, the championship of officers, the pique of a Prussian super-official...
...leak" from the State Department to the effect that a very stiff note had been sent to the Calles government. When the note had been perused at Mexico City and had been declared no stiffer than usual by Foreign Secretary Saenz, the President had already received the benefit pf all that the newspapers could say on the subject of possible intervention.
...Making a daily topical survey of all the bureaus pf the National Government, grouping related activities, is a work which will enable our citizens to understand and use the fine facilities the Congress provides for them...
...past fortnight, Sculptor Nadelman has held an exhibition at the Scott and Fowles Gallery, Manhattan. The critics who visited it were prepared for the famed, familiar ribaldries of this satirist in clay-his grotesquely vivacious figures fully clothed, often painted as well, postured in the more ridiculous attitudes pf contemporary life. These, to be sure, were there, but the prudent, hurrying over them as if they had been jokes in Holy Writ, discovered, in addition, many heads of classic purity, some exquisite busts of children, a big torso in the antique manner. Upon these things lay the lustre...