Word: quaintness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the first to challenge the article was The New Republic: "[It is] almost a world's record for bad thinking and economic misinformation. It is the quaint notion of Mr. Blythe and the Saturday Evening Post that foreign trade consists exclusively of foreigners selling goods here and taking our money away, as its cartoons show us, in bales. . . . Have these gentlemen 'any suggestions as to how foreigners shall pay for the goods they buy from us?" That, most responsible economists agree, is the biggest flaw in "Buy American." Even last year the U. S. exported about...
...Adam Yestreen, the young minister of the kirk, sets down the eerie happenings of his one and only winter there. A man with simple, homely ways, with speculations as to the strange death of one of his predecessors, with a great kindness for all, and a quaint sort of humor, he falls in love with Miss Julie Logan, that "long stalk of loveliness." Their few meetings have many of the elements of a dream about them, yet she seems very much to be of flesh and blood. But in the end we do not know whether she was a phantom...
...College?" is a quaint old question but lately the London Evening Standard played a polite variation on it, posing the problem, of a puzzled lady who said, "I am a widow of limited means, with a son and a daughter, both of average intellectual ability or better. I can send only one to college. Which shall I send...
Through twisty streets and between the high-gabled houses of quaint old Weimar, 74 national flags flapped last week on short staffs sprouting from the mudguards of statesmen's limousines. The nations of the world were doing homage in this small Thuringian city. Here in 1919 the Constitution of the present German Republic was adopted. And in Weimar 100 years ago last week died Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Not only a poet, this lusty, lyric German philosopher was also a resourceful statesman, ever at the elbow of Weimar's reigning Grand Duke...
...henceforth: the red flag of Democratic Socialism and the black flag of Capitalism." Patriotic indignation overflowed. By open letter Shaw tried to persuade Wilson to request that Great Britain, France and Germany should withdraw from Belgium and fight in their own territories. He re-reminded the President of "the quaint absurdity of a war waged formally between the German Kaiser, the German Tsar, the German King of the Belgians, the German King of England, the German Emperor of Austria." Shaw could see the absurdity of the War, could not see the absurdity of fighting witless circumstance with...