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...Harvard Law School, practiced law for three years in Boston. He now spends much of his time on his northern New England farm. In 1929 he traveled on foot and muleback Cortes' route in Mexico, to get first-hand impressions for Conquistador, a first-magnitude effort and suc cess. Other poems: The Happy Marriage, The Pot of Earth, Streets in the Moon, The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, New Found Land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cortes & Co. | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...still pay? and Ceylon produces the best tea in the world. The one thing is to let the world know it. Conservative Ceylon Association in London sits tight on the money bag. refusing the Ceylon Planters' Association's S. O. S. calls to agree to a small cess per pound on tea so that America can be told the virtues and superior merits of Ceylon's famous tea. America is Tea's most promising undeveloped market. . . . GEORGE F. ENOCH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1931 | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...coat, the eldest Guardsman, bag in hand, surrounded by expectant birds, made a few appropriate remarks, chiefly for the benefit of humans who had gathered to watch. "Sure and our Holy Mither herself, may she bless His Majesty!" cried the old Guardsman, "And Divil take his enemies, bad cess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Rooks, King & Tote | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

Mihai, said to a U. S. citizen not a correspondent : "You may quote me with full authority as saying that Mihai is not abnormal in any way. He is neither backward nor precocious. He is not deaf. Sometimes it seems to his mother [Prin-cess Helen] and me that Mihai can be very absent-minded about remembering to do as he is told. But what normal child is not? . . . "Some of the American rotogravures, I believe, have printed pictures of my grandson with the statement that my pet name for him is 'Madcap Mihai' or even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Sinister Efforts | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...annual reception given to all foreign students in the University will be held in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7.30 o'clock. There will be speeches by Plenyono Obe Wolo '17, of Grand Cess, Liberia; Professor George Grafton Wilson and Professor Frank William Taussig. Refreshments will be served...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Students' Reception at 7.30 | 10/5/1916 | See Source »

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