Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour approached when the Senate would say whether or not the Coolidge Era should be crowned by the Kellogg-Briand multilateral treaty-to-renounce-war-as-an-instrument-of-national-policy. As usually happens in the U.S. foreign relations, a group of Senators was seen forming to pass strictures. Their reasons ranged from the super-patriotism of New 'Hampshire's Moses to the wordy scorn of Maryland's Bruce, who called the treaty a "futile gesture" and an "anemic pact" for which he would vote only to move the U.S. closer to the World Court...
...other reason than sheer physical limitations, the rush of American youth to the colleges that has been going on since the war could not keep up indefinitely. Reports of the numbers of new students entering universities for the past year reveal the fact that the tide has finally been checked. For the first time since the movement began, the rate of increase in enrollments is less than for the preceding year...
...Author. War-author Zweig was intimately acquainted with Flanders lice and oaths and mud, having wallowed thirteen months at Verdun. On the Eastern front he knew similar nastiness, saw deeper implications. A German Jew, 41, he has studied French and English literature, translated much of Kipling's verse. He is no relation to Stefan Zweig, the popular modern who adapted Ben Jonson's Volpone for the Theatre Guild...
Behind the German Lines. Diagrams are usually dull, including those which patriots and students kept during the War, marking on maps with little pins the lines of the combatants. It was hard to remember which pins stood for which side or what the irregular graph of a strategy meant in terms of life and death. In this picture, which UFA began to make in 1915, the lines of the diagrams move themselves, like animated cartoons. Neither a newsreel nor a story, it is a history of the War, seen from the German side, but impartially; most of the battle scenes...
...that Schumann died, that she married her secretary William Rapp "for protection" for herself, eight children. Grand opera took her back. She made music history in Austria, Germany, France, England, the U. S. with her Frecka, Erda, Magdelena, Brangane, Walträute. She divorced Rapp. Then came the War. One son died for Germany. The others fought for the U. S. So did Schumann-Heink, singing. Now she is on a farewell concert...