Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bretons are a race who live in the northwestern part of France. They are considered serious. Parisians, on the other hand, are generally said...
Last week, with frown and earnest speech, a group of Bretons foregathered in Chateaulin,* Brittany. Their purpose, characteristic, was serious. But Paris giggled...
Deliberately to hurt the serious reader, to lacerate his peace of mind-such is the present avowed purpose of Count Hermann Keyserling. "I hope," writes this big-boned Latvian Count, who has penned two U. S. best sellers,† "I hope that all Pharisees, all Philistines, all nitwits, the bourgeois, the humorless, the thick-witted, will be deeply, thoroughly hurt. . . . [My purpose is] to demonstrate the absurdity of all nationalist self-glorification...
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...golf course at Lake Placid, N. Y., last week, Rosa Melba Ponselle laughed and chattered from the high spirits of her summer out-of-doors. Playing the round with her, was her singing coach, Romano Romani. He watched her grow serious and silent to tee off. His eyes were on the ball...