Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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first play of the new International Playhouse flags badly after you have finished admiring the sets. It is a Chinese romance, decidedly Victorian in conception and development. Sentiment and joss sticks, torture and leering yellow faces are right enough in their place. That place comes dangerously near being the movies...
...Christ. Tradition for some 1,500 years has indicated the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and although certain unnecessarily logical scholars of the past century pointed out that the disposition of the walls of that city make it impossible that this could have been the place, popular sentiment has, quite justly, overruled them. It is, at all events, difficult to be sure, because one of the only positive things that is known about the tomb that is thought to be Christ's, is that it was, during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian, the cellar of a temple...
...graduated from the War Academy. At 36 he became a teacher in the War School. After that his rise was rapid. In 1906 he became chief of the Austrian General Staff and a leader of the pre-War military party. He was especially strong in anti-Italian sentiment. Whenever he commanded in the border provinces near Italy he distinguished himself by his severity in dealing with any manifestation of Italian nationalism. According to his own account he urged Emperor Franz Josef to make war on Serbia in 1906, again in 1909, again in 1912, again...
...copies since its appearance in 1904 is some index to the degree of sorrow and disappointment the public must feel. A difference exists between a country's literature and its fiction. Mrs. Porter wrote none of the former and a great deal of the latter, sincerely compounding sweet sentiment with what hard-boiled editors call "nature stuff" and giving her main characters capitalized titles that were really poetic to multitudinous readers. The present volume retains this successful formula, telling the story of a Wounded Hero from the Great War who Married a Shamed Girl to give her Baby...
...with China. It is very serious for Hongkong which is reported to be losing $1,000,000 a day by the boycott. The British and Japanese can protest to Peking, and Peking can give orders to Canton -and Canton will go on doing as it pleases. The anti-foreign sentiment in Canton, led by Soviet agitators, gives the British and Japanese the choice of direct action (i.e. using force) or nothing...