Word: apologye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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I am very glad to have your letter of regret and apology for the Crimson's absurd and false report of my talk at Leverett House. If future boards emulate your desire to "take every conceivable step to prevent any recurrence of the same trouble:", perhaps some good will come...
Biographies by Harold Nicolson (Paul Verlaine; Swinburne; Curzon) have been characterized by careful scholarship, an almost ostentatious avoidance of partisan feeling, a mood of suppressed irony. These qualities are all revealed in his biography of Dwight Whitney Morrow, lawyer, Morgan partner, Ambassador to Mexico, Senator from New Jersey, whose life...
Died. Herman Bernstein, 58, onetime (1930-33) U. S. Minister to Albania, founder and first editor of The Day (Jewish daily), brother of Author Hillel Bernstein (L'Affaire Jones); of heart disease; in Sheffield, Mass. In his The History of a Lie, Herman Bernstein exposed as a forgery the famed...
When the great Duke of Wellington, in the course of shooting grouse in Scotland, shot the fundament of a female Scottish peasant full of birdshot, His Grace testily made no apology, and a member of his entourage observed: "The good woman should have been honored by any contact with the...
Although the sketches themselves, dealing with wide-eyed impressions of London hotels, ancient transatlantic steamers, travelers' affectations and disappointments, hold up remarkably well across the years, the chief distinction of Sophomores Abroad is Author Flandrau's wryly amusing apology for having written it. When he began his literary...