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...intent upon obscuring with a strange glorification of its new tools, their beneficial intensification of its life. Yet it takes but little detachment and contemplation to minimize the importance of these inventions while still recognizing their value. They are not necessary to life. They but facilitate extensive and intensive living. An automobile is a better cart; the radio and the moving pictures provide a keener hearing and a farther sight. They are valuable wherein they increase the sensations and hence broaden the conclusions of life, which has always been a thing of sensation and conclusion. And he who receives...
...holds water. Since his sensational escape to Germany from the U.S. his escapades have put the German authorities to all sorts of trouble, notably on Aug. 11, 1923, when he shot and killed one member of a group of men who attempted to kidnap him at Eberbach with intent to bring him back within the reach of the U. S. courts...
...Chancellor's intent was apparently to conciliate the Right, which opposes Germany's entrance into the League until more concessions have been extracted from the Allies. He succeeded so badly that he was hissed and booed from both the Right and the Left, and received not so much as a single handclap from the Centre, which comprises his "Little Coalition...
...intent on waging class war over cups, and saucers, the Evening Standard made reply to its contemporary. It uncarthed a dinner given two weeks ago by the Soviet delegation in London: and labelled it a feast of Lucullus. With watering mouth and rising temperature, the author of the reply listed the vintages arrayed before the Russians: Sauterne, claret, champagne port, brandy, and vodka. It drew the moral that a society tea is but a quick lunch beside a good, luscious, Bolsheviki spread...
Koch. Much interest centered upon a last minute fight, early in the week, between the German Democratic Party, which had got its leader, Herr Erich Koch, into Dr. Luther's "tentative Cabinet" (TIME, Jan. 25), and the Bavarian People's Party, which was intent on getting him out again. The Bavarians denounced Herr Koch as an "arch-unionist" who would take away the "sectional rights" appertaining to the various states of the German Republic. Eventually they forced him to allow another member of his party, Herr Kuelz, to receive the Interior portfolio, which Herr Koch had formerly demanded...