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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telegraphed the German Ambassador at Paris to inform Premier Briand that Germany would actually apply to the League within three days. Late despatches reported that the Premiers of the Federated States of the German Republic were en route to Berlin, there to indorse formally the German application, the actual text of which was to be drawn up at a Cabinet Council presided over by President Hindenburg...
...fresco other people's buildings with the rococo delineations of his embryonic criticism. He is mentally tired. He has learned that better writers, painters, musicians than he can ever be have not only preceded him, but have left their art for the catalogues of word epicures and the text books of higher criticism. The flames do or do not leap high in his fire place, the wind does or does not worry stray shutters and growl is cynicism--but, at all events, indignation does leap high within him--and he worries through college cramp. Yet beyond the confines of Cambridge...
...third time this season, the Chicago Civic Opera Company gave an opera in English-Humperdinck's Hänsel and Gretel. Critics were unable to derive any new ideas about opera in English because the text was throughout the performance quite unintelligible...
...Bismarck was extremely anxious that the text of the Treaty of Berlin should remain secret until the last possible moment. Months in advance De Blowitz had set to work to gain an ascendancy over one of the Iron Chancellor's secretaries. The secretary placed the information which De Blowitz desired in the lining of his own hat, and each day the rotund correspondent sought and found what he wanted in the dark checkroom of the restaurant at which he and the secretary dined-carefully apart. It is history that the Times secured a "beat" over every other newspaper...
Simultaneously the State Department announced that the General will return to the U. S. within a few weeks. On the day following this announcement President Coolidge at length authorized the statement that he had received a Chilean appeal respecting the Tacna-Arica situation. The text of this appeal was not made public, although it was supposed to have reached the White House almost a fortnight...