Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago. To the great astonishment and mortification of the Louisiana delegation, also present was Mayor Thompson's good black friend, white-wooled Congressman De Priest. The Louisianians decided to "sacrifice their personal feelings and remain-in the face of all [Mayor Thompson et al.] have done for New Orleans and Louisiana...
Terms. Great Britain's major concessions to Indian Nationalism were made indirectly at the Indian Round Table Conference in London (TIME, Nov. 24, et seq.), not to St. Gandhi last week. He obtained directly only two things...
Jackson, next year's president, played the Grand Duke Paul, in the play recently put on by the club. "La Grande Duchesse et le Garcon d'Etage." This play was laid in modern France, and the female roles were played by girls from Radcliffe. As far as is known, there will be no play by the Cercle this spring. Some new members will probably be elected in a few weeks...
...Soundings Tomlinson writes on: skiing in Switzerland, a launch trip in the Malay Archipelago, Sea-Dog Frobisher and contemporary worthies, an overnight voyage in a wrecking tug, the talkies, an old man who loses his identity on a train, Thomas Hardy, et al. Whether you read him for the first time or the 20th you will probably admire his musing, sombre earnestness. Whether it bores you or sustains you depends on whether you like pipe-smoking, solitude, reflection...
...these stories (notably those by Erich Maria Remarque, H. M. Tomlinson, Andre Maurois) are really excerpts lifted from longer books, but most are full-length. They cover: The Home Front; Behind the Front Line; In the Front Line; Battle, Raid & Patrol; The Lighter Side of War, et al. Some of the authors: John Galsworthy, W. Somerset Maugham, Ernest Hemingway, Andre Maurois, the late Joseph Conrad, Edith Wharton, Laurence Stallings, John W. Thomason Jr., the late C. E. Montague, Leonard Hastings Nason, "Saki" (the late H. H. Munro), Henri Barbusse, Liam O'Flaherty...