Word: caveness
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...Museum of Natural History: "In a lecture at Columbia University I said: 'Drinking is deadly. Every drinking man I knew in 1876 and every drinking student of mine up to the year 1890 has paid the death penalty. I have every reason to believe that the Cro-Magnon cave man of between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago could enter any branch of the intellectual life of this university on equal, if not superior terms with any of the 30,000 students here...
...particular part. Constance Binney is not only a most accomplished actress and dancer, but she is so easy to look upon that we sat in the sixth row and used opera glasses during most of the performance. Ruth Warren and William Wayne have few equals in the cave-man, aboriginal sort of dancing which is becoming so popular, and Rae Bowdin is one of the most delightful maids we have seen. James Gleason reminds us somewhat of "Little Aify" in "Elsie"; if anything he is more amusing, especially in his sober scenes...
...miners used used a cave in the cliff for a battery room and for a bomb proof shelter during the blasts. the specimens that are now being arranged for exhibition are largely specimens of feldspar quartz and spodumene. A number of specimens of pink afatite, a rare formation of granite, were found...
...Lords as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. This is the highest legal post obtainable in the Empire and superior to that of the Lord Chief Justice. After the fall of the Lloyd George Ministry last year Lord Birkenhead was forced to vacate the Woolsack in favor of Viscount Cave. Since then he has been "kicking his heels'' and, is rumored pining to return to office. In 1901, Lord Birkenhead married Margaret Eleanor, a daughter of the Rev. Furneau, don of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has one son and two daughters by this union...
...replied, "Thanks, I am a subject for prayers rather than congratulations." Cabinet. The Cabinet is identical -except for one change-with that of the Bonar Law ministry. Lord Curzon will remain as Foreign Secretary, Lord Derby as Secretary of War, Lord Salisbury as Lord President of the Council, Lord Cave as Lord High Chancellor, Mr. Bridgeman as Home Secretary, the Duke of Devonshire as Colonial Secretary, Lord Peel as Secretary for India, Lord Novar as Secretary for Scotland, Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery as First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame as President of the Board...