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...Boswell, Mrs. Thrale, Miss Burney", Professor Greenough, Sever...
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Professor Tinker is an authority on the Johnson period of English history. He edited the recent edition of the letters of James Boswell which was printed in 1924. Other works by Professor Tinker include, "Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney," "The Salon and English Letters," and the well known biography, "Young Boswell...
Adroit in arousing public sentiment, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney, M. P., builder in charge of the R-100, last week gave a tea party. Fifty guests, including several M. P.'s, mounted a staircase with mahogany balustrades, inspected a kitchen equipped with electric stoves, visited 39 sleeping cabins, each with a window and beds. Mrs. Burney, onetime Chicago debutante, was hostess...
Wondering if they had strayed by mistake into the Berkeley or the Savoy, guests followed host & hostess to the promenade deck, sat down in wicker chairs. Proudly, Commander Burney told them the R-100 is the world's largest dirigible, with a hull as big as many an ocean liner...