Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the schools that furnished a background, the book goes to the years after the century's turn. The story of Roosevelt's climb runs through the story of trusts, meat-packing scandals, oil, railroads, the coal strike, Wall Street Finance...
...more than its constitution and its language; the more complete history becomes, the more humble, the more complex and the more exciting it becomes. But as it grows more complex it grows harder to write; selection becomes a game of chance; order and emphasis grow unruly. As in The Turn of the Century, the first of his three volumes full of Our Times, Author Sullivan has managed in America Finding Herself, to make his facts behave. Again by sheer quantity of unexpected, unorthodox, incongruous and apparently unlimited information he makes his book valuable as historical data and even more valuable...
...Novelty came from Vienna, special import for Maria Jeritza. Erich Korngold, so it seemed, wrote it at the precocious age of 16; called it Violanta after his heroine, a lovely enough Venetian lady who hated and lusted and loved and died in such swift turn as to gray the hair of any onlooker. Jeritza played it for all there was there, took every phrase, every mood, tight between her teeth, shook them hard, tried to make them answer back, got small return...
...forth with a volume which psycho-analyzes in terms of newspaper headlines, once current fads and fancies, forgotten manias, previous eras of the United States. He has written not exactly a history but rather the evolution of a popular mentality. Having begun this peculiar method of examination in "The Turn-Of-A-Century" the first part of that work called in entirely "Our Times", he continues it in the second part, "America Finding Herself...
...organizations interested in any or all of these branches are asked by the Department of Physical Education to turn in their names addresses, and telephone numbers of their delegates to the Council at 6 Wadsworth House before November 28. The Department plans to call the first Intramural Council meeting for December...