Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tumac-Humac mountains and the Atlantic lies Guiana, storied and fabled since first sighted by Christopher Columbus. Properly speaking there are three Guianas-British, Dutch, French. Nothing so conduces to a realization of the positively alarming size of the South American Continent as to peer at a map and reflect that deceptively small British Guiana is really larger than England, plus Scotland, plus Wales. Dutch Guiana is four times larger than the Netherlands; French Guiana is one sixth as large as France...
While the old Marshal pondered Mme. Joffre, sitting beside him in a rocking chair, was observed to rock more vigorously. Her husband, with half closed eyes perhaps fixed on things far away, seemed to reflect as ponderously as had Old Dr. Tuffier over backgammon. Suddenly Mme. Joffre stopped her quick rocking, sat up bristling, spoke: "I wonder-I just wonder-how many people would claim they lost the Battle of Marne, if he had lost...
This afternoon the Vagabond finds himself with no choice but to follow the crowd to the Union to watch the turn of the tide reflect on the grid-graph. Lesser considerations must stand aside as the backs go tearing by. Rarely does the Vagabond feel the urge of mob psychology, that inexplicable longing to go and do likewise, but stirring considerations like those afoot today whirl him willy-nilly to the Union. In connection with this subject the Vagabond finds that there are some interesting lectures which he recommends...
...potent indeed is Britannia's backing that Editor Frankau has declared: "There is no limit to the money we are able to spend! It cuts no ice in an undertaking of this size. This paper is going to reflect the new spirit of England?the business England of today. They may call Britannia a 'jingo weekly' if they like! After all patriotism is the biggest factor in any successful endeavor. The idea is that everything going into Britannia, from machinery to brains will be all British...
...Fabbricotti. For of all the families who have hacked and hewed in the quarries of Carrara, the family of the Fabbricotti is oldest and greatest. When the two chiefs of the Fabbricotti-Guido Murray and Carlo Andrea-ride on horseback to their deep pits in the hills, they may reflect that their ancestors have ridden in just such a way, to the same pits, for some 500 years. It was in the 15th century that the head of the Fabbricotti line appeared before the Duchess who ruled over Carrara.' Humbly, he besought permission to quarry marble. The grant...