Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington correspondents, the Stimson notes were drafted when their author did not know whether to believe conflicting reports that China and Russia were even then patching up their differences at a peace parley near Vladivostok. Other reports convinced Mr. Stimson that Soviet planes were bombing Chinese villages. He meant well, meant to stop any possibility of slaughter. But to Comrade Litvinov, who knew from his direct wire to the peace parley that China was yielding and Russia winning peace on her own terms, the U. S. note seemed at best an intrusion. His note in reply said: ". . . the [Stimson] declaration...
Every year the Imperial tanka theme is moulded and painted by leading sculptors and artists as well as poetized- therefore it must always be visual...
...would be successful in stopping the sale of the Dakin biography, Publisher Maxwell Evarts Perkins of Scribner's admitted that "the attempted censorship has seriously affected sale of the book in four-fifths of the bookstores of the country. It should have sold three times as well...
...with a hat similar to the one which the Bishop of Valence, Messire Loys de Poictiers, gave me, which he said he had brought from Rome. I think it was of some felt other than beaver, a good inch thick, covering the shoulders and back completely, and coming well over the horse's crupper; it was also well turned up in front and at the sides, so that one had no need of a cloak against the rain, and in hot weather it was as good as a little house...
...Jean Rivier, 33-year-old Parisian; and New Year's Eve in New York by Werner Janssen, 30, Manhattan jazz pianist and composer. Critics paid scant attention to the first half of the program. The Chabrier was tame, the d'Indy lovely but pallid. The Clevelanders played well, but the last half agitated some critical pens...