Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give an interview in Walt Whitman's house in Camden (to help raise funds to make it fireproof) that I would be letting myself in for so much unfortunate publicity. No sooner did I reach New York than someone showed me a clipping from the New York World saying that I "mourned for America" (which is just the opposite of my true feelings-I have the most tremendous pride and hopefulness for America) and that I was jailed in Boston. A little while later I received an angry letter from my aunt, la Comtesse de Gabriac, saying that...
...true that I am working my way around the world, partly for a novel I am writing, to be called Sea Change, and partly for the experience itself...
...other side of the world from Washington, however, that was brewing which might make the Kellogg Treaty absurd on the first day of its legal existence. Soviet Russia and Nationalist China, two of the signatories of the pact, were on the explosive verge...
Before many days passed Messrs. Stimson and Kellogg received reassuring news. Came formal notices from Russia and China that each would live up to the terms of the Kellogg Treaty (see p. 22). Statesmen the world over applauded Statesman Stimson's perspicacity and promptitude for his "reminder...
Worst danger: any time in the future, machines may escape man's "poor discipline" in a two-hour mechanized warfare in which, according to Author Chase, all the cities of the world will wipe out one another...