Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park for the week end, Vestryman Roosevelt attended a special service at St. James' Episcopal Church. The President had brought with him from Washington a Bible (King James version), a gift to the church from the King and Queen of England in remembrance of the Sunday last June when they worshipped there with Mr. Roosevelt. Lacking an appropriate passage in the prayer book of the U. S. Episcopal Church, the Reverend Frank R. Wilson read from an English Book of Common Prayer: "O Lord, most heartily we beseech Thee, with Thy favor to behold Thy most gracious sovereign...
...From England, where denunciation had been loudest, now came a "defense" more destructive than any attack so far. Wrote Author Harold Nicolson, in whose "Long Barn" estate at the foot of the Kentish weald Lindbergh stayed during his English exile: "He emerged from that ordeal (the 1932 kidnap-murder of his son) with a loathing for publicity that was almost pathological. He identified the outrage to his private life first with the popular press and then . . . with freedom of speech and then, almost, with freedom. He began to loathe democracy, . . . His self-confidence thickened into arrogance and his convictions hardened...
Earle fails to see why England and France did not attack Germany when Hitler attacked Poland. He thinks the U. S. will be able to keep out of the present conflict. "England and France have Germany in worst position ever in history", he says...
...lecture on mediaeval music by Dom Anselm Hughes, Prior of Nashdom Abbey, England, will be given in Paine Hall at 8:30 o'clock, November 8. The lecture will deal with John Dunstable, leader of 15th Century composition. The public will be admitted without charge...
...well as to the league leaders, Springfield and Wesleyan, by one goal margins, and they have beaten M.I.T. 3 to 1 and Massachusetts State 6 to 1. But one man, Eckhart, is responsible for more than half of their goals, standing second in the New England league standings with eight points to his credit. The game this afternoon is likely to resolve itself into a contest of Eckhart vs. Harvard...