Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been given to the Dunster House library by Mrs. Thayer. The books include works on the history and literature of Italy and the United States, and are of great value not only scholastically, but for their value of association with famous men of the early part of the twentieth century...
...view of the recent revolutions in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Brazil, a course in the political history of the Latin American republics in the nine-teenth and twentieth centuries is especially important for an understanding of their background. While an intimate acquaintance with all of the periodical upheavals in some twenty states is not very interesting for the general student, the religious and agrarian policy of the Mexican government, the interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, and commercial relations with South and Central America are of international interest, and have been appearing frequently in the press during the last few years...
...wordy preface to the exhibition catalog by the French critic, Waldemar George, contains such gems of critical thought as "Art is made of double meanings. Pierre Roy . . . comes out of the infernal circle of twentieth century art and changes his centre of gravity. ... In the view of Pierre Roy the picture ... is not a picturesque visible fiction. It is a second phase of life. It is also a reincarnation." M. George also describes M. Roy as a petit maître- a Little Master. By that M. George presumably means that Pierre Roy is not interested in the faces...
...could it be otherwise, for spirit is universal by its very nature. It is therefore possible to foresee a Fascist Europe which will model its institutions on Fascist doctrine and practice, a Europe which will solve in the Fascist way the problems of the modern State of the twentieth century...
...humor and dramatic tenseness that arises from the futility of the situation are the main virtues of the play. The author has realized the force of climax and situation and every scene closes with a subtle gesture that completely wins the audience. At the juncture at which the Twentieth century Peter Standish arrives, the stage is darkened, the door opens and a shaft of light reveals the very beautiful Kate Pettigrew, Louise Pressing, sweeping into a superb curtsie to greet her betrothed just as the curtain falls. It is a succession of moments like this that makes "Berkeley Square...