Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Practically all the states of eastern Europe, except Russia, are bound by agreements to accord these subject peoples equality of treatment, education in their own language and religious freedom, and in general to abstain from oppressive measures. But in 1919 as in the period before the war, it was thought impossible to apply similar regulations to the larger powers because such provisions obviously amount to an infringment of sovereignty. Consequently there is no legal remedy for the people of southern Tyrol who are the most systematically oppressed of all the submerged peoples in Europe today. Far from having learned from...
...course not. Why should they tear it down? Well, the inside. Didya see the red all over the snow? Thought it was a murder for a while. But Al says it's methyl orange. Butter-coloring. Guess that's what they use here...
...Laurac was divorced and in the War he died. Helma came to the U. S. to the Metropolitan Opera Company. There critics thought her a little cold but her prestige grew as it had in Europe. Her sole defeat was a trip to Mexico City under none other than Impresario Gonsalvo. She had been tempted by the offer of the highest fee ever paid a woman singer. But she offended the politician-backer, sang badly and had to be hustled out of the city to save her skin. The experience shook her confidence, ruined Gonsalvo. For Gonsalvo she magnanimously provided...
...incidental sketches of herself are quite as shrewd and quite as flattering. She says that Carl Van Vechten thought she should dress "very simply, in black, no headdress at all, no earrings, nothing but her own strange face." He raged at Robert Edmond Jones for jeopardizing his dramatic tastes by approving her passion for ''dressing up" in gaudy turbans and flaming ospreys...
...record-breaking African cocoa crop. Even after this bearish announcement, however, trading continued at twice its normal rate. Commodity markets in general have been exceedingly active. On the Coffee and Sugar Exchange, for instance, a seat last week sold for $31,000, a new peak price. It was thought that Federal Reserve attacks on Wall Street were diverting money to the commodities, though this theory did not well coincide with Wall Street's recently renewed activity...