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Diary entry for 1917-01-13
... . I was able to risk using this tone of voice with all the more self-composure since Miss Elias had recently expressed her willingness to step in for Mrs. Deutsch, and also after Lie-Liechen's sage advice that even Baron Alphons could be prevailed upon ...
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Diary entry for 1918-04-15
... -in-law has been abused and taken as the basis for a forgery. The complete text of the letter released by Paris is so naive in tone that one can only imagine it to be the work of the crude imagination of a Frenchman who in cultivating such a collection of ...
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Diary entry for 1924-06-26
... , commanding all the possibilities of tone connection and gradations of light and shade, all the techniques of bowing, but at the same time yielding to the commonest of desires, which he allows to deteriorate even into tastelessness. Traces of such ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-09
... it, then surely only out of egoism. Was ever a second child conceived against such a background? Mrs. Deutsch enters my room and asks me "when did Mr. Perutz used to come?" From the natural tone of the question, I suspected at first that the lady ...
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Diary entry for 1917-01-04
... recipient – whether internal or foreign – is surely unable to decide on the tone of such notes. Invocation of the phrase = Invocation of the muse … "On Sorrow, and How to Overcome it," by Dr. Ziegler (Frankfurter Zeitung): sorrow produced by nature itself ...
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Diary entry for 1917-02-25
... of the world war. Letter from Baroness Bach: in an injured, but not injurious, tone, she accuses me of a lack of interest in her daughter's talent, which she still imagines to be above the average level. The tax authorities allow me to pay in ...
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Diary entry for 1919-04-24
... the new note from the Entente ("… the tone significantly more polite"). The German draft of the League of Nations. The report from the commission for assessment of responsibility: "… the full responsibility for the war falls upon Germany and Austria ...
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Diary entry for 1919-08-24
... married daughter expressed to her sister in my presense the desire to invite us over; in somewhat hushed tones they discussed that it could only be "for teatime," and when Lie-Liechen comes back into the room, after having in the meantime left to show her ...
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Diary entry for 1914-05-27
... Differenzierung der Töne als Individuen u. führte zur Illustrierung eine drastische Analogie an, indem ich frug, ob man jemandes Eindruck billigen würde, der z. B. in einer Gesellschaft statt 7 anwesender Personen blos sagen wir 3 oder 4 zu sehen vorgäbe, weil er ...
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Diary entry for 1914-08-20
... , unfortunately by mistake, offered compliments even for an art which is non-existent, strike a rude tone and thus recall those animals that, even if coddled in this way, stick their claws into their benefactor. That England avails itself of the Japanese is yet ...