Word: tyrol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...southern side of the Alps matters went little better. Tremendous damage was caused in the Austrian and Italian Tyrol. Practically every railway out of Switzerland was put out of action. In the north every bridge from Steinach to Gschnitz in Austria was washed away. Europe reported the worst Alpine flood since...
...mock disgust. The Boston Library and Harvard gave him splendid scope for his genius on their walls. Yet for "paughtraits" he continued most famous. His President Wilson fetched $50,000. Some day, perhaps, his landscapes will bring the like. He was an outdoor man, a sketcher in the Alps, Tyrol, Rockies. Pre-Raphaelitism, or any ism omitting the air and light or nature, were incomprehensible...
...Europe the crass and cruel injustices of the peace treaty still cry to high Heaven for redress. In the Tyrol as in other states they curse the name of Wilson, the author of their misery. There is evidence that today the Germans are more popular in France than the Americans; that the acclaim which greeted our plunge into the War has turned to envy, bitterness and open revolt at what they call their bond-slavery to our Treasury. Everywhere in Europe the tide of hatred against America rises. Before he died Woodrow Wilson himself said: 'I would like...
...book, his presence broods over the opening scene. A vast, shaggy, Rabelaisian music master, he has fled England and wandered through Europe accumulating wives, mistresses, children, disciples, renown. He has at last brought them all, "Sanger's Circus," to a sprawling chalet in the Austrian Tyrol. There, shut away with his boar hound, he is dying. His nubile daughters live in an abandon of cultured savagery, vivid but slatternly mixtures of profundity and ignorance...
...Italy. What Italian realizes that Senators with many Klan constituents are apt to see in any settlement favorable to Italy a favor to the Pope? What Italian stops to remember that Senators with numerous German-American constituents are obliged to resent Mussolini's recent anti-German threats concerning the Tyrol? (TiME, Feb. 15, ITALY...