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...People mask their inner selves with elaborate manners and morals, and it was James's purpose to smoke them out. No other modern writer has so deftly exposed man's savagery beneath his civilized veneer. "James saw [the world] a place of torment," his personal secretary Theodora Bosanquet wrote, "where creatures of prey perpetually thrust their claws into the quivering flesh of the doomed, defenseless children of light. He saw fineness sacrificed to grossness, beauty to avarice, truth to a bold front. He hated the tyranny of persons over each other...
...professors find him an invaluable stimulus. In a sense, he has become the kindly uncle of the whole university, feeding on the youthfulness about him while giving in return the benefit of his 70 years of experience. "He likes young people," says King's Rector Charles Bosanquet, "and has sympathy for them. But he is a wise old man who has a true sense of what are the real values of life. Without appearing to preach, he does tend to make students understand that there are some things it is silly to do and some that are worth doing...
...Marion Cleveland Amen reminisced to a New York World-Telegram reporter: "It is possible for a baby to have a normal life in the White House, but it means quite a struggle for the White House mother. . . . My sister Esther [Mrs. W. S. B. Bosanquet of Marton-in-Cleveland, England] really was the White House baby. . . . It was she who was always eating the fancy soap in the baths that were a novelty even in the White House. She was just three when we were leaving. My father saw her all dressed to go and asked why she was going...
...Bosanquet is aged 55. and was Bosanquet, the well-known cricketer who played for Middlesex and invented "googly" bowling, has given birth to a son at their home at Pyrford Common, Surrey...
...Bosanquet is aged 55, and was married in 1924 to Miss Molly Jones, daughter of the late Mr. Kennedy Jones, who was associated with the founding of the Daily Mail...