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...Tokio, he visits his Aunt Teresa, a domineering invalid who in 1914 rapt Emmanuel Vanderflint, her Belgian army husband, to the Far East, chiefly because it was far. With them, ''just like one family," live other refugees, a mother, sister and two daughters Vanderphant. Also Aunt Teresa's daughter, Sylvia Ninon Therese Anastathia -long legs, dark brown hair, hazel eyes, guileless, 16, attending convent. She reads "Questions and Answers" in the Daily Mail. Georges quotes her the poets, plays Tristan and Isolde on the piano. They kiss a little and call pet names...
...lack of boats and galleys face Charles XII† of Sweden with disaster at the siege of Frederikshall? Emmanuel Swedenborg invented a machine to transport them overland. Did youths need verses in Latin for ladies? They applied to Swedenborg. Did house chimneys smoke or the deaf suffer? Swedenborg cured the chimneys and gave the deaf an ear trumpet. Did the world need an interpretation of the Scriptures? Swedenborg furnished...
Except for Mr. Dresser's provocative paper on Birth Control-a subject now agitating several churches-the annual Swedenborgian convention was uneventful. But this proved sufficient cause to recapture from historical lore the name by which this smallest of sects is known: Emmanuel Swedenborg, of Sweden, who was poet, mystic, mathematician, physician, statesman, inventor-almost everything but a Malthusian...
...Byzantine influence and in its turn became a model for several college chapels in Oxford and Cambridge, England. It seems likely that the style was carried thither by one John Harvard, who was expelled from the monastery, for his peculiar religious views and founded in England a community called Emmanuel College, where thought was intended to be free. He still retained some affection for his native place in spite of its rigorous discipline, for the little colony which grew up around him assumed the name of Cambridge. This incident also confirms the growing suspicion of the old dictum that American...
Died. General Charles Marie Emmanuel Mangin, 59, famed one-armed hero of Verdun; in Paris, of appendicitis. It was in March, 1916, that he led the brilliant attack at Verdun which resulted in the retaking of Fort Douaumont (see FRANCE...