Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Ex-Premier George spoke eloquently apropos of the unhappy state of British agriculture. He began by stating that the kingdom imported last year $1,900,000,000 of foodstuffs that could have been grown at home. In 1913, said he, Britain grew 59% of her food; in 1924 only...
Josephus Daniels: "We had been brothers in affection and in service a third of a century. I loved him as I loved no other man. ..."
The three children of his second wife "are similarly provided for by their father's estate." "But," the will, written in Curzon's handwriting, continues: "I bequeath to each of them the sum of $25,000 as proof of my affection."
This cluttered journal proceeds with all the ingenious disorder of its subject's existence. Had he been a woman, the title could have read: "Anatole France with her hair down"- bodily hair, mental and spiritual. He asks the secretary, in a study crammed with sacred art-works and in...
Today marks the return to Cambridge of a number of Harvard's most illustrious classes, as well as the ever welcome graduates who attend the Commencement week festivities regularly each June in informal groups. They will be held in awe and esteem by the undergraduate, for he regards them with...