Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blodnieks as Prime Minister and General Janis Balodis again took over the Army. Gloomiest fact to the Lett-in-the-street was that no alcoholic beverages could be sold for two days. Suspicious correspondents, not at all satisfied with the obvious instigators of Latvia's dictatorship, spotted the shadow of Adolf Hitler behind President Kviesis and his officers. Beyond the Polish Corridor and East Prussia, the Eastern shore of the Baltic is edged with little countries born of the War. Going north, they are Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and vast lake-riddled Finland. All of them were Russian provinces before...
...Bardamn's adventuring continues. There is no let-down at this point either in reading quality or in the amount of degradation and muck which M. Destouches' lascivious here continues to encounter. The story shifts to Africa, then to the United States; back to France; then finale in the shadow of a private insane asylum where Bardamn is director. American readers, perhaps, will be disappointed when "The Journey," which begins as if to be a French "All Quiet on the Western Front" develops into a sort of "Candido." Throughout the whole book there persists the same strange humor to lighten...
...sculptor. Of Jacob Epstein's 100-odd "masculine" bronzes, he says: "There is not a dead one in the lot. . . . One of the most original styles in all sculpture." He advises Jose Clemente Orozco to return to Mexico if he wants to preserve the representative sun and shadow of his native land...
...without a shadow of doubt there is at the moment in Europe a huge and subversive force that Mes behind the arming and counter-arming of nations; there are mines, smelters, armament works, holding companies, and banks, entangled in an international embrace, yet working inevitably for the destruction of such little internationalism as the world has achieved so far. The control of these myriad companies vests, finally, in not more than a handful of men whose power, in some ways, reaches above the power of the State itself. Thus, French interests not only sold arms to Hungary in flat violation...
That lumbering hulk, American justice, which is sometimes fortunate enough to crawl within seven years of its shadow and which has long since all hered in to disgrace abroad is undergoing another bit of humiliation in the courthouse at Dedham these days...