Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...civil service of Franz Josef, Austrian Emperor, Hungarian King. But, in order that her son might have two strings to his bow, wise Mutter Hainisch encouraged her Michael to become the erudite and scholarly writer of some 25 volumes on sociology, finance, colonization, ethnology, migration, marriage, and political and social science. Though President Hainisch's hobby is milk cows, he is even now industriously and perhaps dutifully at work upon a new tome, to be entitled The Theory of Competition. Austrians acclaim him the smart son of a smart mutter...
...Pancake's opposition to the proposed change was vigorous. He noted that senders of social cables (13% of cable business) will profit by the new rates, requiring only a 13? MUPJY to convey the thought that "all are well and enjoy ourselves," while large users (87% of business) will bear the burden of the increase...
...Proust had rewritten The Arabian Nights" . . . "Don Quixote with a dash of Jane Austen" . . . fortunately the ancient Japanese document is no such mongrel monstrosity as all of this. But the reviewers' floundering tributes indicate something of its variegated appeal. In limpid prose The Tale combines curiously modern social satire with great charm of narrative. Translator Waley has done service to literature in salvaging to the Occident this masterpiece of the Orient written circa...
...ISLAND OF CAPTAIN SPARROW-S. Fowler Wright-Cosmopolitan ($2.00). Young Foyle is cast upon an imaginary mid-Pacific island-not to found the new social order, but to encounter thrilling adventures among relics of four races: satyrs who mate with human beings, ruka-birds of uncanny intelligence, high-minded followers of the Priest of Gir, and the low-born descendants of a pirate crew. Satyr hunts, cannibalistic orgies, hair-raising escapes are in order. But Author Wright will rather be remembered for the swift ingenuity of his unique Deluge...
Married. The Right Hon. John Henry Whitley, 62, onetime (1921-28) Speaker of the British House of Commons who last month, retiring from the House, refused a peerage (TIME, July 9); and Helen Clarke, social worker; in London...