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...books of Bertrand Russell are a modern substitute for the Bible. One of the high priests of our day (a scientist, a No. i mathematician), his writing "is not addressed to highbrows, or to those who regard a practical problem merely as something to be talked about." Few deny the high morality of his lucid logic, which makes even his rational counsels of perfection sound like simplest common sense, but few could put these counsels of perfection into practice. At least his simplifications should be an antidote to confusion...
...pretty. Antoinette, the leader, is too intelligent for her own happiness. Annonciade, essence of nonintellectual femininity, adores her. Suzon, Annonciade's younger sister, is a jealous little flapper with her eyes wide open. Alas for peace, three young men live near by. Two of them, André and Bertrand, are brothers, childhood friends of Antoinette's. But their guest Robert, bronzed, much-traveled civil engineer, is the rock on which feminine friendship is shattered. Realist Suzon, seeing she has no chance with Robert, contents herself with tantalizingly dangerous escapades with Bertrand, light of heart and tongue. Andr...
Reasons like the following made Bertrand Lord Dawson of Penn's westward journey across Canada the past fortnight a respectfully observed, newsworthy processional...
...nobleman. However: he was born March 9, 1864, at Duppas Hill, Croydon, Surrey, England, to Henry Dawson, an architect of sufficient contemporary repute to be elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects. His mother was one Frances Emily Wheeler. Somewhat more than 40 years ago the then Bertrand Dawson was a comparatively poor but comparatively elegant medical student in London. Among his acquaintances was a really poor bookkeeper in London, James Ramsay MacDonald. Recently the Rt. Hon. James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain, told a story about both of them: "The first time I visited Buckingham...
...hard, darting, practical glance of Congressman Bertrand ("Bert") Snell the House of Commons must have teemed with curious contrasts. In his own semicircular House of Representatives, for example, males and females sit hatless as in a theatre, facing the "well" beyond which rises Speaker Nicholas Longworth's rostrum. They may not eat, drink or smoke, but may address the House in Spanish?language of the Philippines...