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...Bernard Shaw, 42, were married in 1898. She had just nursed him back to health after a severe accident. She is gracious, completely self-effacing, smart, Irish. Her principal achievement has been to translate most of the plays of Eugene Brieux-previously considered an obscene French playwright by most Englishmen-and to get them triumphantly produced in London, after years of bickering with the Lord-Chamberlain, Britain's play censor...
...leave of absence which permitted him to go to London for three years was reluctantly given by the University, and with the hope and expectation that the end of those three years would see him back again. Some Englishmen had questioned the right of an American to hold the chair in the London School of Economics which had been held by Edwin Cannan, but Professor Young so won all English economists that he was elected president of the Economic Section of the British Association...
...Englishmen were asking one another earnestly last week-as Englishmen will- "Why should not Palestine become the Seventh Dominion of the British Crown?" Specifically this question was asked, in a large and lofty way, by several M. P.'s of each British party-Conservative, Liberal and Laborite-who assembled last week in London to found the Seventh Dominion League. Sat, as chairman of the meeting, Colonel Josiah Wedgewood, M. P. (Labor), flanked by Lieutenant-Commander Joseph Kenworthy, M. P. (a Liberal until 1926, now a Laborite), and by Lord Hartington, M. P. (Conservative), heir of the 9th Duke...
...news organs said that H. R. H. seemed "pale and haunted" by the memory of the dead woman, the other in childbed, and all the horrors of starvation he had seen. Casual U. S. readers supposed this meant that Edward of Wales would eschew gayety for some weeks. But Englishmen are not like that. With duty done, H. R. H. hopped a local train for Melton Mowbray, his favorite hunting centre. After a sound night's sleep he seemed his cheerful self again, sprang to horse, and galloped off with many another after a frightened little red fox. The horse...
Perhaps only Englishmen completely understood. At West Hartlepool, fighting Laborite John R. Clynes, M. P., loyally said of H. R, H.'s tour...