Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From those sad few of us who are struggling to flee from the Ulysses-Black Oxen-Jurgen mania, Francis Brett Young's latest book draws forth a sigh of relief. In "Pilgrim's Rest" there is realism to be sure, but it deals with the loneliness of the African jungle, and the ups and downs of life in an African gold-mine town. Like its contemporaries got it is outspoken, and yet it leaves one with the comforting feeling that perhaps the present-day light novel has not completely fallen into the hands of a corporation of psycho-sexualists...
President Ebert, answering a telegram from Trier demanding relief, alludes to " the new German atrocity of the French military forces against women and children who are driven from their homes by African soldiery...
...Greek Government issued a strong denunciation of the Turkish order prohibiting the American Near East Relief to move foodstuffs from warehouses without paying full customs duties, which have recently been raised 500%. It is stated that the cost of this tax would be $1,000 a day on the basis of 30,000 rations, which, in round figures, represents the number of Christian refugees requiring food in Constantinople...
...State Department announces that the Near East Relief will be withdrawn from Greece by June 30. This is not, however, due to the Turkish taxation, but to the fact that...
...years, they have built up a Canadian Authors' Association which, starting originally to protect copyrights, has developed into a pleasant social organization, and one which takes a great interest in book propaganda. To their efforts must be credited the original success of the delightful Maria Chapdelaine. It was a relief, the other day, to sit down with Mr. Leacock and some of his cronies in Montreal. A relief, because one no longer heard talk of Sherwood Anderson or of T. S. Eliot, of this modern literary quarrel, or of that new play; but Colonel George H. Ham, another Canadian humorist...