Word: unyieldingness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In "Magda" it is the old Prussian paternalism, proud, self-righteous, and unbending, against the new spirit of freedom and the unbreakable will of a talented, restless woman. Magda, driven to leave her home early in life by the narrow and unsympathetic intolerance of her father returns twelve years later...
The rising generation of Spaniards, suffering from the taunts of soft tender-hearted foreigners, has objected. They wish their bullfights; they wish the bull to attack the horse; but they will accept an attack involving less gore, less evisceration. To this end horses have been provided with experimental steel armor...
Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows: Samuel Insull, organizer of electricity: "In Chicago last week I went to a hall in the black belt to address the National Negro Press Association. I waited...
The late Marshall Field, always autocratic, unyielding, glared at the Federal Commission before whom he was speaking, as if he expected a contradiction. None came. Too much had been spoken, even then, about this John Shedd, about his economy, his executive ability, his uncanny foresight, for the listeners to dispute...
"This is a picture of a grand seigneur, who loves the fine and the real in art and meets the world with dignity. It is the picture of a man who is true to himself and who will stand unyielding on his own high principles. I had seen him often...