Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather playful neurologist. Something like a scientific interest may be discerned running through the collection." The Author. Booth Tarkington is one of the first representatives of the Hoosier school of fiction. His books rarely stray from scenes in the Middle West. His important books are: Monsieur Beaucaire, The Turmoil, Seventeen, The Gentleman from Indiana. He won the Pulitzer prize for the best American novel published in 1919 with The Magnificent Ambersons, and in 1922 with Alice Adams...
...exodus of Kaiser Wilhelm, periodic rumors of revolt have kept the German pot a-boiling. German Ministries have ebbed and flowed but only one bubble in the pot has come to the surface the Kapp Pusch of 1920. This bubble was soon burst. In the alchemy of internal turmoil, the characteristics of Prussia have changed places with those of Bavaria and Saxony. Berlin beams with sunny cordiality, while Munich and Dresden are lowering with political ferment...
...sandwiches. Fortunately, for them, the obliging American athletes contributed materially to Oxford's victories on Saturday, both in track and crew; and the Sunday sporting pages rang with the "glad news" of American supremacy, while editorials sounded serious warnings of "this dangerous American Imperialism". The cause of all this turmoil was the presence of two Americans in the Oxford shell and five who were point-scorers on the Oxford track team which distinctly added a red and white touch to the customary "blues" of the supposedly English athletic classics. But with the events over the whole subject should join...
Underneath this turmoil of criticism lies grave concern at the clouded future of British commercial interests...
Every one but Belasco having been convinced of that, producing souls have been in a turmoil trying to decide just how to create the essential illusion without having to violate the Constitution every time a character is supposed to take a drink...