Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sign the Saint Germain treaty? giving as reason that the prohibition of arms export except under license to responsible governments would automatically deprive revolutionaries whose cause was just of their right to revolt. It was contended that prohibition would make producing nations of the non-producers?the last thing to be desired. This question was thrashed out anew. The insistence of many nations made it clear that the scope of this meeting was not prohibitory...
After a week of this kind of thing, the truth, naked and unabashed, came out in the open: the Riffians had captured a number of blockhouses in the French zone; the French, although their losses were light, had suffered casualties. Marshal Lyautey, French Resident General in Morocco, telegraphed to Paris, asked for more troops...
...Premier now holds the portfolios of Foreign Affairs, War, Marine and Air. It was argued in Rome that, if this kind of thing goes on. Signer Mussolini will be the whole Cabinet. More probable, however, was the rumor that the Premier intends to create a Ministry of Defence combining the portfolios of War, Marine...
...apparently conflicting impulses : The first is recognition, as of a face suddenly rekindled in the memory, that makes the mind welcome her strangest comings as foreseen returns; the second is wonder, which sets men to question their own delight and to scrutinize that fabled face as a thing holy and remote. These tendencies follow no order of precedence. Now one, now the other, according to the temper of the times, prevails upon thought. The Italian artists before Giotto, borrowing the immaculate but dispassionate wonder of the Greeks, painted women whose faces were abstract as algebraic ellipses; later, yielding...
...terrific melodrama of history called The Spanish Armada is a play within the play. Captured by the English defenders is a Spanish nobleman. In love with him is the lovely English heroine. The whole thing ends up with a lot of deaths, a fearful sea fight and a pageant for British victory. Through it all, the Critic sits by and thinks everything wonderful...