Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Comrade Charles E. Ruthenberg, master-Bolshevik, eyes hope-haunted with a thousand failures, lay still, died. Throughout the U. S. tiny bands of comrades mourned. "He was," said the Daily Worker, communist newssheet, "the sole outstanding figure who carried over into our party the very best traditions of the pre-War socialist movement.... We expected to write soon that he had gone to prison because of his loyalty to the cause of the workers. . . . But death does not release its prisoners." Editor Linson of the Chinese Nationalist Daily, news organ of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party), wrote: "We are very...
Modernist noses are elevated at any mention of Raphael Sanzio. It is fashionable, in some circles, to prefer the austerities and twisted imperfections of painters who, as they say, "knew less and hence could feel more," the pre-Raphael primitives. But the "modernists" of today are the conservatives of tomorrow. Painter Raphael's fame has never been any more gravely beclouded than was his princely young life, which, beginning at the ducal court of Urbino where his painter-father enjoyed generous patronage, was strewn with the gold of rulers and the blandishments of their women, in Perugia, Florence, Rome...
...thoughtless pre-Lenten frolic on a Shrove Tuesday morning one hundred years ago in old New Orleans. Through the gumbo mud, the open ditches, along the plank sidewalks, under the street lanterns, paraded seven drunken students, back from their schools in France. As they whirled past the colonial guard station, a startled guardsman gave pursuit to the celebrators, chased them pell-mell down into the Old Quarter, by the Place D'Armes, past the St. Louis Cathedral, along streets lined with white houses embroidered with iron balconies...
...social failures rose to 1,520 c.c. That looked serious to us and with great interest we read the prognosis of bankers and captains of industry regarding the future. According to predictions the situation improved in 1920, and our mean brain volume sank once more to near the pre-War level...
...homes of commerce. But the most beautiful is the new Aeolian Hall dedicated to music. So recently decreed the Fifth Avenue Association, wherefore its president, Colonel Michael Friedsam, (also president of B. Altman & Co.) awarded the Aeolian Co. the annual gold medal in token of its building's pre-eminent beauty. Said the Colonel: "This splendid building is a Fifth Avenue-New York message of inspiration and good will to the country. Such structures . . . insure our country the commercial leadership of the world...