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...England and the personal representative of George V at the Chequers Conference, His Majesty's private secretary Sir Clive Wigram. Hostess No. 1 was famed Miss Ishbel MacDonald, charity worker. Hostess No. 2 was obscure Miss Sheila MacDonald, bicycle rider, basketballer. Lunch was the merriest Dr. Bruning has eaten in a long time. As a friend of his once said: "Heinrich is more than Spartan, he is monastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fighting for Fatherland | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

With the House Plan, Harvard will perpetuate itself, reckoning little of the future. But the fathers have eaten wild grapes and the children's teeth will be set on edge. Why hope to spare the impending day of athletics for all, and the lank limbs that follow in its tread? No, the hope of the world must be in the women. And even that is an much a case of vanity as of hope. It is really about as broad as it is long. One can only sit by, and muse on hippology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRAILTY, THY NAME IS WOMAN | 5/22/1931 | See Source »

...repay loans, but rarely did with more than gratitude : "I hope the master [who financed most of his vagaries, including steerage passage to San Francisco] will take care of his honorable wife [who sold her precious marriage kimono for his maintenance]. . . . Please remember me to all who have eaten out of the same kettle. With bent neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Funny Noguchi | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...those who flocked past his portico. Despite his bothersome little cold he and Mrs. Hoover attended a sunrise service (it was cold and cloudy) at the amphitheatre in Arlington National Cemetery, later went to the Friends Meeting House. As usual on Easter Monday eggs were rolled, cracked, squashed and eaten by hundreds of ordinary Washington children on the South Grounds while Grandchildren Peggy Anne and Herbert III ("Peter") were privately entertaining 200 youngsters from official families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Pledge | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...secret sources, but that it had been his duty to pretend official ignorance. After roundly denouncing the proposed Austro-German pact, after promising to fight it tooth & nail, Dr. Benes wound up with an oracular prediction that the Teutons will not get what they want. "Not many things are eaten," he said smartly, "as hot as they are cooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Benes & Briand | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

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