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...conventionality sent the blood to her cheeks." But "she was cognizant of the crises that impend in all human breasts" and considered that "innocent intimacy was preferable to unacknowledged proximity." She grew deeply attached to him; he of course worshiped her abjectly; they lived together through months of celestial bliss, gorging on succulent, ambrosial fruits, observing luxuriant inhabitants of the air where "giant ferns grew rank by fetid fens." Octans neatly despatched a ghost leopard that infested their paradise and all was serene until she asked him to pick a certain blue lotus. Then an "odious ophidian," a python regius...
...Dorchester and a bank in Squantum was robbed, each decided that the spirit of education, being what it seemed, was ater all, worth the sacrifice. And each had engraved on his coat of arms "Felices Ter Et Amplius", which of course has much more to do with conjugal bliss than the spirit of learning but "policemen are policemen", as the Countess of Niblick once said in all truth and consequences...
...organized for the purpose of inquiring into the status of compulsory military training in the schools of Massachusetts, and to urge the abolition of such training. Among the prominent names on the list are Professor Zacharia Chaffee, Professor A. N. Holcombe '06, Professor Manley O. Hudson L. '10. Professor Bliss Perry. Dean Roscoe Pound Hon, '20, Professor F. B. Sayre L. 12, and Professor Harlow Shapley, all of them connected with the University faculty. Reverend Harold E. B. Speight, Minister of King's Chapel is the Committee's chairman...
...Fred B. Lund, Mrs. Robert A. MacFadden, Mrs. John F. Maher, Mrs. Frank D. Marshall, Mrs. Frederick S. Moseley, Mrs. Edward R. Nash, Mrs. John L. Newell, Mrs. William I. Nichols, Mrs. Stanley DeJ. Osborne, Mrs. Edward C. Parish, Mrs. Bliss Perry, Mrs. Frederick S. Pratt, Mrs. Harold I. Pratt, Mrs. Robert W. Puffer, Mrs. Walter L. Righter, Mrs. Hovey E. Slayton, Mrs. Albert Tilt, Mrs. Charles L. Todd, Mrs. Richard Trimble, Mrs. John N. Watters, Mrs. August F. Weymer, Mrs. Arthur Woodworth, Mrs. Charles L. Sommers...
...Geneva School of International Studies, because of its location offers an unequalled opportunity for the study of international relations. Among the members of the General Committee of the School, are General Tasker H. Bliss, Glen Frank, President of Wisconsin University and former editor of the Century Magazine, Stephen P. Duggan, and Walter Lippman, noted political scientist and author...