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...write before his span of life is done a play in which a street walker walks into a drawing room unannounced. She usually walks out again leaving a group of idle rich attempting to reassemble the fragments of their devastated philosophy. Such is the current effort of Frederick Lonsdale, Englishman, author of Aren't We All. Inserting his tiny needle point of humor into this familiar situation, he has injected various stimulating charges of the unexpected. He sustains, therefore, the interest...
General Sykes, who is an Englishman and who has been in His Majesty's army for many years, was commander of colonial troops in southern Persia during the war. He has come to the United States to lecture during the coming season and has already given two lectures of a series of eight at Lowell Institute in Boston...
...whose work would be incomprehensible to a Canova or a Thorwaldsen ? are Aristide Maillol, whom Clive Bell, English oracle of modernism, Sheldon Cheney and many others consider the greatest sculptor alive; Bourdelle and Gaudier, other Frenchmen; Jacob Epstein (an American, by the way) and Eric Gill, an Englishman; Grancusi, Bohemian carver of geometrical solids; Mestrovic, the Serbian; Archipenko...
Benito Mussolini: " My brother Arnaldo protested against my lending my name to a favorite race horse owned by Frank Turner, an Englishman. Said I: 'Let him have my name so long as he wins...
...reversal has been noted also in oysters, which change their sex three or four times a year, according to a Danish experimenter, Sparck, at Limfjord, and an Englishman, Orton, at Plymouth. The phenomena are thought to be connected with the temperature of the surrounding waters...