Word: austen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Miss Dorothy Payne, a stenographer of Sir Austen Chamberlain's, able typer of the original of the Treaty of Locarno, to John Sterndale Bennett, a secretary to Sir Austen Chamberlain, now promoted to a British diplomatic post in Chile; at London...
None the less the press busied itself with the affirmatives of all these denials for many days. Finally it was denied all round that Sir Austen Chamberlain and Aristide Briand have also been offered Wilson Foundation Peace Prizes but have refused them...
...Troy" by John Erskine is an entertaining and modern story of that fascinating lady after her return to Menelaus. Then there is "Bring! Bring!" by Conrad Aiken, good short stories with a bad title, a collection of the stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, "Caravan" by John Galsworthy, and Jane Austen's "Sanditon," hitherto unpublished. Despite the CRIMSON'S obituary of Sherwood Anderson, his "Dark Laughter" seems to me a great improvement over some of his other books. Michael Arien's "May Fair" is on the order of his other books, but after the first flash he becomes a little tiresome...
OTHER EVENTS. 1) The delivery of the originals of the Locarno Pacts by Sir Austen Chamberlain to Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League of Nations, as provided for in the text of the pacts themselves. 2) The issuance of invitations to prominent economists all over the world to attend a League Preparatory Committee which will organize a World Economic Conference with the broadest possible agenda...
...Briand's luggage, as he departed from London after signing the Locarno Treaties (see INTERNATIONAL), nestled a silver loving cup, the gift of Sir Austen Chamberlain. Engraved upon it were the words, A mon ami, Aristide Briand. Souvenir de Locarno. With a sigh, M. Briand quitted the scene of his greatest triumph; rushed home to Paris where his newly formed Government (TIME, Dec. 7) has none too many friends. Within a few short hours he was engaged in fighting what he himself described as the most desperate battle of his political career...