Word: adelphi
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...remark he sent through Collier's Weekly in response to a typically American request for his views on Santa Claus. The remark was: "Santa Claus be bio wed!?(signed) G. Bernard Shaw, Adelphi Terrace, London...
...transpired that part of a rare art collection owned by Joseph Pennell, American etcher, and his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, author, was irreparably damaged by water in the basement of a London warehouse where it had been stored since 1917, when the Pennells gave up their residence at Adelphi Terrace, London, on account of the War, and returned to the U. S. When Mrs. Pennell went over in 1922 to secure the goods, she found 30 out of 56 cases ruined by damp. The loss is estimated at several hundred thousand dollars and can never be replaced...
...Club thereof, aesthetically accoutered to do their devoir. The Circle Players, the Temple Players, the East-West Players, the Players' League, the Stockbridge Stocks?these five arose from Manhattan, and girded their loins with batik and fine linen and came. Brooklyn, fair Brooklyn of the poets, sent forth the Adelphi Dramatic Association, the Brooklyn Institute Players, the Clark Street Players?mighty clans...
...ground. Kinder, Kuche, and Kirche, in the good old German sense, was the proper province of female aspiration, and any attempt to educate them beyond the three K's was foolish and dangerous. The result of Mr. See's bull was to increase the endowment funds of Adelphi College (the specific object of his wrath) and to delight the many thousand intelligent Americans of both sexes who love to catch a Babbitt out of bounds...
Whether in preparation for this week or not, there has recently rolled up from many quarters an extraordinary variety of opinion on education. Mr. A. B. See gave vent to inflammatory wrath against women's colleges in general, when he was asked to contribute to the Adelphi College endowment fund. Mr. See felt that colleges were responsible for "smoking, drinking, cosmetics, French heels, and all other flapperisms among young women", and the only ways out in his opinion was to burn them all to the ground. Then President Butler of Columbia complained in his annual report against "the spirit...