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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather than passive, consequently much blood was shed and much damage caused. For this both sides must be held culpable, but to what extent it is difficult, if not impossible, to decide. In the late Fall passive resistance collapsed, the mark, which had been steadily falling, fell out of sight. Germany was beaten; France had won her object. She is now getting raw materials, but can she get gold...
...play mandolins, banjos, guitars, piano, saxophones, violins, 'cellos or any other instrument will try out for the 1927 Instrumental Clubs on Monday evening. For the trials each man will be asked to play a solo from memory and a piece at sight...
...this is partly true for the perfectly sound artistic reason that it helps you remember that a Dago is Italian, a Grand Duke Russian, a Sheik Arabic, a waiter French. It keeps you from losing sight of the environment in which the events narrated take place. But an even more fundamental reason is that we like to be able to convince ourselves of familiarity with the unfamiliar. The French phrase becomes a mark of confidence in us and in the extent of our linguistics?particularly if it is discreetly translated in the next sentence. It is just one more...
...Food conditions in Germany were acute even when I was over there last summer," said Professor Lord. "In Munich and Berlin even then it was a common sight to see crowds camping out all night in front of the butcher shops. The general feeling is that starvation is certain this winter. Conditions become worse every week. And of course the financial status of the country is ludicrous...
...making. There have grown up in the shadow of Flaubert with his dull and unfortunate M. Bovary a race of writers who call themselves "realists." These Realists have much in common with our Imagist poets, especially in the common method of transcribing rather than transmuting whatever of sight or sound or smell comes to them through their senses. This photographic process, which eliminates the emotions and sympathies of the author, has at present the resource of shocking the public into buying. But as the stimulant grows stronger, its effects become less potent, and one day the revolution against Victorian sentiment...