Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Margot Asquith, 81, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, witty widow of British Prime Minister (1908-16) Herbert H. Asquith, longtime society enfant terrible; after a brief illness; in London. Her gossipy books (More or Less about Myself, Off the Record) about famed friends and enemies never violated her premise that "reticence is dull reading." Her lifetime of audacities included writing a note in pencil to Queen Victoria, declining to stay at a dinner party despite King Edward's request, staging a fashion show at No. 10 Downing Street...
Community-sponsored adult education, says the Committee, should make every attempt "to keep the break in learning between school and adult life as brief as possible," and it is recommended that the school itself "be the civic center for adult education...
...front page of the London Times last week appeared three brief obituaries that were like an epitome of Britain's war effort: "Dudman - killed at El Alamein, Nov. 2, 1942, Richard Anthony Dudman, Lieutenant, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry...
Thus fixed, Vigeland married himself to his job, forever forsook all ordinary social life. Even wives (he divorced two) were out. Oslo's citizens caught only brief glimpses of him-when he took walks armed with a heavy stick, to protect himself from dogs, which he hated. One result of his personal seclusion: Vigeland is far less known internationally than his fellow Scandinavian sculptor, Sweden's Carl Milles...
Scott Fitzgerald was barely 20, fresh from Princeton and a brief spell in uniform, when he saw "the unexpended nervous energy of the war years exploded [into] an age of miracles ... an age of art ... an age of excess." Suddenly, spontaneously, the Jazz Age had begun. "Life was like the race in Alice in Wonderland, there was a prize for everyone...