Word: conly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After this conversation H. R. H. began to dictate copious notes to Sir Godfrey Thomas. Apparently he plans to place con crete names and figures before his next radio audience. As the third day wore on, as he slopped down street after street and peered into hovel after hovel, the Prince's face hardened, greyed. "This is ghastly 1" he ejaculated frequently to Sir Godfrey. "I never thought things were so bad. A ghastly mess...
...keeps abreast of the foibles of the art world, but turns from them to pulsating scenes about him. No one is bewildered by Davidson sculpture. He builds no weird convocations of planes, no fever ish conceits of form. Like the sculptors of the Roman tribunes, his primary con cern is the search for character. The roster of Davidson subjects includes Anatole France, Feodor Chaliapin, Charles Gates Dawes, John Joseph Pershing, Wellington Koo, Woodrow Wilson, Marshal Foch, Georges Clemenceau. He went to the Versailles Peace Conference to see faces. When he forgot his pass he acted as a messenger in order...
...Slavery Pro and Con", Professor Schlesinger, New Lecture Hall...
...Slavery Pro and Con", Professor Schlesinger, New Lecture Hall...
...obsessions and oppressions, Rome's citizens, soldiers and provincials admired Caligula. That was not his real name. His real name was Gaius Caesar. But, because he was charming as a little boy when he plopped in soldiers' boots along the Rhine with his father Germanicus, everyone called him, and con tinued to call him through his short life, Caligula. Caligula means "Little Boots...