Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week at Perugia the inference to be drawn from this ancient History was stark and plain. What was a Roman lake may become an Italian mill pond. While II Duce spoke, many a Perugian tingled with imperial dreams, forgot that the immediate occasion for ecstasy was the dedication by Premier Mussolini of a new college intended for foreign students at the ancient University of Perugia...
Premier Baldwin returned cheerfully to London last week, faced again the stark reality of the five-months-old coal strike...
...Chesapeake bay; their chicken-stealing, arrest, abduction of a judge, capture of a ferryboat, and highly improbable treasure hunt, are matters for the thrice-fortunate reader to follow alone. The Significance being, simply, that the commonplace has suddenly, with sublime and innocent vulgarity, comic pedantry, unflagging ebullience, gone stark, raving romantic. Here is one book, at least, for which Autumn, 1926, is destined to be memorable. The Author, born in Bay City, Mich., 33 years ago, has been a newspaperman ever since he grew up. Detroit, St. Louis, and more lately Baltimore...
...Canton was quiet. The town's respectable dance place, the "Molly Stark," was ready to close, and out in a genteel residential section, Publisher Donald R. Mellett of the Canton Daily News stopped his automobile in front of his house, to unload Mrs. Mellett and their friends, the Walter Vails, who were going to have a bite of midnight supper before getting along to bed. Mrs. Mellett led the Vails inside and made for the icebox. Publisher Mellett drove his car around to the garage...
...size of Canton are usually conscious of corruption on only two planes-the dismayingly magnified obscenities of their own local government, and the almost mystical dereliction of national officeholders, such as various members of the late President Harding's cabinet. But statues like the bronze McKinley of Stark County most likely perceive, from their detached points of vantage, that corruption of one kind or another is visible wherever mankind sets up what it calls government, at least in the U. S. Public prints for last week alone, resounded or echoed with the following cases in various states...