Word: wail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Solomon's Temple. Many a commentator on the Jew-Arab crisis of last week loosely assumed that the "Wailing Wall," where all the trouble started, is part of the famed Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, built by the Louis XIV of Jewry circa 1000 B.C. and today utterly in ruins though the outlines of the Temple remain. Actually Jews wail for the lost glories of their race at a superimposed and much later wall built by detested King Herod. The lower courses of masonry alone are supposed to contain stones originally part of the Temple...
...have not the slightest reason to agree with the oft-heard wail that all Europe will ultimately become an American colony. Nothing lies farther from the wish of the American people than to take from the European his responsibility for the conduct of his own industry. The American wishes in his international dealings and business acts to deal with independent persons and peoples who are conscious of their own responsibility. He does not wish to deal with slaves...
France's expected wail of protest against Dr. Schacht's reservations to the Young Plan (TIME, May 13) again failed to materialize last week. Limping, the Reparations conference continued to advance...
...from Frankfort on the Main last week came Germany's Farbenindustrie (farben: to dye) accompanied by enthusiastic activity on the part of U. S. bond purchasers and a lone wail of protest from Finance-Writer Hugh Farrell. The German chemical "invasion" of U. S. territory took the form of the incorporation of American I. G. Chemical Corp. as a Delaware affiliate of I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft of Frankfort, commonly known as I. G. Dyes and loosely referred to as the German Dye Trust. When Chemist Carl Bosch, I. G. Dyes' president and Dr. Karl Düysberg, its Chairman, came...
...this point it occurs to me that I have named forty authors and I have but scratched the surface. It is good, I think, to scan this panorama occasionally. It is a tolerably good answer to those who wail about modern literature (and who don't read it). Most of these authors should be collected in their original bindings and the lady will, of course, have to do over her library. There will be many cloth books in bright colors and paper labels and the decorator will have to use uncommon skill. Somehow I cannot see Barbellion in calf...