Word: ams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"This Year of Grace" is a plain spectacle, not to be compared to the Broadway durbars of Mr. White and Mr. Carroll, and plumes and rosettes are absent from what Mr. Woollcott used to term the decor. Except for the miraculous waltzing of Mr. George Fontana and Miss Marjorie Moss...
For the first time in my long career, I am embarrassed. Some time ago, in a moment of careless folly, I made a considerable wager on Yale to beat Princeton. Betting against Princeton has often proved economically unsound. Though it is great fun to make the wagers, paying them is...
And so Thomas Garrigue Masaryk was not idly boasting, last week, when he said to a U. S. correspondent on the tenth birthday of Czechoslovakia: "I wish it were possible for me to take a quiet evening stroll past our new statue of President Wilson [in Prague]. They tell me...
¶ The Astronomer Royal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson, intimated that the most numerous classes of visitors to historic Greenwich Observatory and its famed Time Meridian are now the Germans and the Japanese, both provided with copious, well thumbed guide books. Recently a Spaniard hastened in, ignored the Meridian, asked to...
"... My sole instigation was from God. I am ready to die. He who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword. My only thought now is the saving of my soul. ..."