Word: european
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Briand bristled visibly. "The word 'solicit'," he snapped, "has an aristocratic air not in keeping with the democracy of the League of Nations. ... I won't say whether Russia will be 'solicited' or not. ... It will be very probable that this new institution will be open to all European nations...
...proposal that the League should work for lower European tariffs made by British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald during his flying visit to the League last fortnight, was praised and seconded by the Scandinavian countries...
...should make haste!" cried Finance Minister Ernst Trygger of Sweden. "If we do not soon lower the tariff walls that are stifling inter-European trade it will be too late. As our Swedish proverb well says, 'While the grass is growing the cow dies...
...Jugoslavia is the outstanding European producer of opium. The chairman of the League's somnolent anti-narcotics committee is Jugoslavia's swarthy Constantine Fotitch. Last week he reported to the Assembly on means of checking the opium traffic, spoke with eloquent circumlocution, repeated several times "we must wait and hope...
When Erich von Stroheim first turned up in Hollywood, a polite, conceited fellow in high collars and without hair, he gained attention over other European adventurers looking for a fortune in the movies because he knew something about military etiquette. He had been to a cadet school in Austria, had served in a crack imperial regiment. After advising directors on the proper management of uniforms and parades, he began to act in pictures himself-stared through a monocle, fought duels, smoked the longest cigarets ever photographed kinetically; was billed as "The Man You Love to Hate". Not satisfied, he became...