Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remembered as "the first Christian Premier of China" (1922). At the outbreak of the War he was Chinese Minister to both Germany and Denmark, withdrawing definitely to Copenhagen when China entered...
...United States is a friendly country and I do not wish to say anything which can be regarded as either disrespectful or disagreeable to that great country. But I want to put the facts. America came into the War two and a half years after its outbreak, and during that time she was very busily and very profitably engaged in making war material for the Allies...
...Viking Press ($2). A prosperous Bordeaux mercer has the misfortune to upset his gig in a ditch. A young traveling man, Julien Brun, has the good fortune to pull him out. Thus, in 1817, begins a human little pageant of French bourgeoisie that continues for four generations, to the outbreak of war in 1914. For of course young Brun marries the mercer's daughter and lives, though not ever after or in unmitigated bliss, at least long enough to father some little Bruns, whom we follow to their several graves. Aricie is the unselfish daughter who, after losing...
Later, the New York World, said: " It would be hard to say which was the sillier-Rupert Hughes . . . or those other guests of the occasion who took the outbreak seriously enough to get vocally angry about it. ... [In addition to what Mr. Hughes said,] Washington also kept hens and a dairy. He was thus a rich butter-and-egg man from the South; but so to describe him would be a long way from characterizing the Washington that matters...
...written an entertaining but slightly padded account of "Lord Timothy Dexter," the freak of Newburyport, and Isaac Goldberg an interesting and elaborate life of "The Man Mencken." Earl Grey's "Memoirs" relate, among other things, what he is willing to tell of the British foreign relations at the outbreak of the War. Dr. Harvey Cushing has written an exhaustive and pleasant life of "Sir William Osler." From a very slight examination, I think Drinkwater's book on Bryon is entertaining and valuable. The subject will never cease to be interesting, and treated in the excellent prose of Drinkwater it should...