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...Greece (it was he who investigated the dead Byron's feet and spread the lie about a cloven hoof), married a Greek chieftain's sister, suffered terrible wounds, corresponded devotedly with Mary Shelley. He later wrote Recollections of the Last Days of Byron and Shelley, an invaluable document. He visited the U. S., swimming Niagara between the rapids and the falls. He bought English estates (marrying once more) and turned country gentleman, social lion, patriarch of the Romantic period. With a constitution "stronger than steel," he lived until 1881 (reading Blake, studying Darwin), and finally had his ashes...
Signed by nine lawyers ending up with Arthur Garfield Hays, from whose Manhattan office it went forth, the advance document of what will be argued next month at Nashville set forth the following points...
Into the Quai d'Orsay (Foreign Office) there strolled last week one Captain Gordon Canning, Britisher. Negligently leaning upon one corner of the desk of an undersecretary, he flipped open the following interesting document, which he claimed to have brought from the war area in Morocco...
...hiss. General Patrick, Chief of the Air Service, also gave testimony surprisingly favorable to the Government contentions. He said that anti-aircraft fire was "not entirely effective" but was a useful assistance in repelling enemy air attacks and should be developed. The Government also presented a German military document to show that of 6,000 Allied planes and balloons brought down, 900 had been accounted for by anti-aircraft fire. All in all, it was not a "Mitchell week" at the court martial...
...motive power behind all these rumors was a document signed at London (TIME, Dec. 14) by the representatives of Great Britain, Ulster and the Irish Free State. It provides that the boundary between northern and southern Ireland shall remain as at present, and that Britain shall relinquish all claims upon the Free State for payment of Ireland's part of the British War debt. The agreement had been ratified earlier in the week by the British House of Commons and the Ulster Chamber. It awaited only the ratification of the Dáil before becoming operative. Why then...