Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marquis is an ex-colyumist who has taken to writing "seriously." But he is still enough of the colyumist to feel that he should sugar the pill. In this book of short stories, the grim alternates with the comic strip, the eerie with the whimsical. Among the exhibits: a strong silent farmer overhears the hired man seducing his wife; Tim O'Meara tells his sons how his great diplomatic ancestor tickled the fancies of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary; the Old Soak exudes a tale of spiritual wickedness and liquor in high places; the powerful Katinka in a circus...
...inevitability of this process is a bitter pill to swallow for those few members of our own civilization that appreciate the true values lying beneath the chaos that prevails in China today. But with transportation and communication as far developed as they are now this Westernization cannot be long delayed, and it may be consoling to the friends of China that it may turn out for the best. For the Golden Age of the Empire is a thing of the past and if the country that still treasures its remains is to enjoy the benefits that a younger culture...
...outwits them all by making a pact with the Agravian President appealing to all peoples to set up a world control of calcomite. This is the first step towards internationalism and the universal brotherhood of man. Naturally, Mr. Wells is aware that this bald doctrine would be a bitter pill in the throats of a typical film audience. So he tempts the crowd with a Graustarkian love affair: all about how Paul, though heir to the Claverian throne, began life as the son of a simple U. S. garage-owner-how he met Margaret Harting, the daughter of a pacifist...
...John Bull, you refused to swallow our sort of disarmament pill at the Coolidge Naval Limitations Parley in Geneva (TIME, June 27 to Aug. 15. 1927). We offered to limit all classes of ships. You offered, instead, another sort of pill, suggesting that we limit only the larger naval craft and leave unlimited small cruisers and small submarines...
Though this stiff pill was swallowed without protest, the National Assembly proceeded to deadlock and then to balk when instructed by King Amanullah to pass a bill raising the marriageable age of females to 18. Occidentals may not realize that the chief distraction of many an aging Oriental is his new wife, aged say 14, or in extreme cases as low as seven. The Afghan National Assembly, however, positively declined to ratify the measure...