Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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University -- "The Cock Eyed World", with Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe...
...caption is the title "The United States of Europe"! How skillfully it sets forth in five words the regeneration of mankind, suggesting the solution of the tremendous issues of the twentieth century and at the same time delicately alluding to the great and successful United States of the New World. It is undeniable that the chief republic of North America has solved, with reasonable success, the problem of reconciling vast areas and immense populations with a comparatively simple and understandable federal system. It is equally undeniable that since the fall of the Roman Empire nearly fifteen centuries ago the rich...
...present agitation for European confederation on a great scale is subject to two inherent and stubborn difficulties. The first is the Asiatic complex. Anything approaching world confederation must take account of the two enormous aggregations of population in India and China, which together include about half the human race. No world union is possible so long as this vast population might out-vote the rest of the globe. The second difficulty is that, if the majestic idea of a vast federation is actually carried out in Europe, two of the most important units must he omitted. The first of them...
...joins a European United States, will that bring into the system the Europeanized communities of Canada and Australia and South Africa and the other far-flung colonies dominated by Great Britain? On a basis of equal representation of population groups. Great Britain and her dependencies would contribute to the world federation something like one-fourth of the population, the greater part of which is not English. That is a great morsel for a union of countries in which, for example, Finland and Switzerland and Greece are to have in some respects an equal status with Great Britain. Furthermore, the question...
...York color, world-wide as well as local, has won the day over intelligence. It proves the truth of Professor Roger's advice to have two pair of pants, for on his haberdashery almost alone has Mayor Walker ridden to fame and fortune. In Boston haberdashery failed to assist a candidate for in the reign of mud that preceded the election few presses could endure. So Curley is in the saddle again. It may be hoped he will not break the camel's back...