Word: coldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Il Duce was embracing and triumphing at Rome, last week, there was left to King Vittorio Emanuele III?who has just returned from a state visit to Tripolitania and Cyrenaica?merely the cold, staid duty of honoring at Turin the late Emanuele Filberto, Duke of Savoy, born in 1528. All that could pertinently be said about Duke Filberto was compressed into a trenchant oration by famed Senator Sem Benelli, author of The Jest, a grewsome play which Actor John Barrymore made a hit-show in the U. S. some years...
John Dewey was born at Burlington, Vermont, a cold pinnacle of New England culture, on Oct. 20, 1859. To him came the rude, germinal, quickening call of the Midlands. He grew up to teach philosophy in the universities of Michigan (1884-88), Minnesota (1888-89), Michigan (1889-94) and Chicago (1894-1904). There the pragmatism?the "practicality" ? of his philosophy was nurtured on a basically pragmatic human soil. Dewey, more than anyone else, may be justly called the Philosopher of the American continent. With characteristic "practicality" he has declared:* "Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device...
...armed robbers. . . . Superiority of our firearms prevented bloodshed. In spite of Tibet passports, expedition forcibly stopped by Tibetan authorities on Oct. 6, two days north of Nagchu. . . . With inhuman cruelty expedition has been detained for five months at altitude of 15,000 feet in Summer tents amidst severe cold, about minus 40 degrees Centigrade...
...have bet $75,000 that Harry would finish. He hired a sleeping bus and two trainers for Harry and followed the boy in his Pierce Arrow roadster. To Pyle was left the job of paying the prize-money. "Each and every one of you will get your cash, boys-Cold Cash -that's my name. . . . Come to me next week . . ." cried...
...music in the South was formal and surrounded with cold, music in the North was warm and humble, made gay by the climbing spring. At the Chateau Frontenac, in Quebec, was held the second annual Canadian Folk Song and Handicraft Festival...