Word: spenglerism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mann, Spengler and Stresemann. The son of the House of Mann stubbed his toe against life when his father died. The family business had to be sold at a loss in 1890. He moved with his mother to Munich, where she insisted that he must work at something. He sold fire insurance, writing novels by stealth until fame came. Like his great contemporary in philosophy, Oswald Spengler, his genius was fired most completely by contact with Mediterranean culture, and he repaid Italy with Der Tod in Vene dig (Death in Venice...
...Back 24 160 5.10 Rose Poly. Inst. Price, J. M. '32 Tackle 19 195 6.2 N. W. Mil. & Nav. Ac. Ray, B. '32 Guard 19 190 6. North. High Schimmelphennig,I.R. '30 End 21 175 5.11 Midland Col. Simenson, E. G. '32 Guard 21 180 6.1 State Teach. Col. Spengler, D. S. '32 Tackle 20 185 6.2 Juniata Col. Stecker, R. J. '32 Back 19 160 6. Hazelton High Stuart, A. W. '30 Back 22 150 5.7 Alfred Univ. Suarez, E. W. '32 Guard 20 190 6. Mobile High Timberlake, E. J. '31 Back 20 175 5.10 St. Luke...
...chance to rare or unknown authors whom Adviser Scofield considered worth while. Some of the Dial's feats and features were: D. H. Lawrence's long short-story, "The Man Who Loved Islands," Arthur Symon's obituary estimate of Thomas Hardy; the first pages of Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West": The last words of Anatole France; new verse by Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, e. e. ("lower case") cummings; contributions from George Saintsbury, Maxim Gorky, Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Hueffer...
...Germany, Oswald Spengler lucubrates that Western civilization, now toppling over a wave crest, declines by morphological...
When the first volume of The Decline of the West appeared in Germany a few years ago, thousands of copies were sold. Cultivated European discourse quickly became Spengler-saturated. Spenglerism spurted from the pens of countless disciples. It was imperative to read Spengler, to sympathize or revolt. It still remains so. The second volume, treating of the kinship of _ plants, animals, men, parallels of law, cities & cultures, languages, religions, ethics & morals, stimulates further astonishment and elation. These are fruits of contact with perhaps the most colossal mind of our age, a mind which forces wondrous patterns on the chaos...