Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though German public opinion was in harmony with U. S. thought, last week, in blaming Bolivia most, the following highly significant editorial occurred in Berlin's Bocrsen Zeitung or Stock Exchange Times...
Apparently the prosecution had been able to find only one distinguished Man of Letters who thought that The Well of Loneliness should be suppressed-Rudyard Kipling...
...King Alfonso had greatly (perhaps politely) praised a thin, hard, and nearly tasteless rye bread or biscuit, famed in Sweden as knaeckebroed. Shrewdly a Swedish baker approached the admiral of the Principe Alfonso. "Might not His Majesty like a box of knaeckebroed to take home with him?" The Admiral thought he might...
...Imperial Highness' wife is a sister-in-law of the assassinated Tsaritsa Alexandra, who was the chief patroness of Rasputin, no subject would well have been more delicate. When it was made clear however that the questioner did not share the commonly received opinion of Rasputin, but thought him in some respects admirable, the Grand Duke Alexander perceptibly brightened and said: "He was a great hypnotist-very strong! And he was a great healer. Two, three or four times he saved the life of the Tsarevitch-the little son Alexis. So his mother, my sister-in-law, the Tsaritsa...
Last week Chinese students at Nanking got out of patience even with the rapid progress now being made by Foreign Minister Dr. C. T. Wang. They knew that he was negotiating with Japanese Consul General Shichitaro Yada; and they thought both negotiators a little too polite and slow. Suddenly student exuberance boiled over, and a mob rushed to hurl brickbats and curses at the walls which sheltered Dr. Wang and M. Yada. Loomed a diplomatic incident of gravest sort. Only quick action by one of the Nationalist "Big Three"-Chiang, Feng or Yen (TIME, Dec. 24)-could stop the brickbatting...