Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges, maintained complete silence last week at his retreat, Chilswell, Boar's Hill, Oxford. An irrepressible Mid-West headline writer once placed above a story concerned with Laureate Bridges-then in this country-the single devastating row of caps...
...must shoulder the job of swinging the pendulum back to grace. What then is the result which we fear? It is that Yale must pay the bitter price of being an example. Yale, then, is an example, and has shown that the wet majority of the country will not retreat before this legislation. This being the case, a compromise is both desirable and necessary if young America is to grow up with proper respect for law." Yale News, April...
...Step by step Italians will force back the desert. That task will be one of the glorious pages of the new Italy. We shall force the sand dunes to retreat into the depths of the interior, creating gardens and forests in their places. ... It is a revelation to me that everything can grow here...
...during the great retreat, Nicholas II asked of Nikolai whether peace should not be made with Germany at once...
CYNTHIA CODENTRY?Ernest Pascal?Brentano ($2). The psychological network that entangles Cynthia Codentry and causes her retreat from metropolitan philanderings to the dumb worship of Dirt-Farmer Swedge of Long Island, all unravels to the old copybook line about him who hesitates. In his wisdom and mercy, Author Pascal makes manifest some reasons for Cynthia's hesitations ? unnatural home life with her divorced actor-father; the enervating effect of life among rich school girls; a sophisticated girl's natural fear of being prematurely pigeonholed by life. But these extenuations do not suffice to save Cynthia from standing indicted...