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...scheduled) he skipped back & forth between English and French: "Gentlemen. ... I believe this is the first time in history that any sovereign has presided at the opening of a conference of all the nations of the world. . . . "Messieurs les délégués, c'est avec trés profonde émotion que je vois autour de moi cette auguste assemblée qui parait si vaste mais qui représente une conception infiniment plus vaste-d'espoir et les voeux du monde entier. . . . Messieurs...
...various methods of learning the principle parts of the verb "ennuyer." One can choose Mr. Kelsey as an instructor, and be bored with attempts to liven the classes with French geography and American social problems; one can choose Mr. Harvey and be bored with an interminable succession of "n'est-ce pas?'s." Or one can choose one of the other instructors with less developed technique, and take his chances on the method of boredom. It doesn't matter much in the end; one goes to as many classes as the Dean requires, and somehow...
...Oblita Est Filiorum Suorum...
...miners. International-minded Director Pabst moved the disaster up to 1919, showed the reminiscent rancor of the War in an exclamation by the sweetheart of an imprisoned French miner when she hears that a rescue party is coming over from the German side. She says: "Les Alle-magnes?c'est impossible!" The Germans pile out of trucks, go down the shaft with gas masks. A French miner, muddled by fear and dazed by gas, when he sees someone crawling toward him in a mask mistakes his rescuer for a German soldier. Director Pabst never stops emphasizing his theme?that...
...Office refused to explain. To most Chinese and many an Occidental it seemed possible that Japan was asking the League to hold back the true text while she spread around the Orient a distorted version. Sailing from Shanghai last week, close-lipped Lord Lytton said of his Commission "Defunctns est...