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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attacked Regent Horthy of Hungary; he averred that U. S. loans were being used to finance another war, etc. In toto, he said what he was expected to say; he proved that he had nothing new to say. He had stolen fire, but so long ago that it had gone...
Over the border in Syria (French mandate), whence the Earl had gone presumably at the invitation of the French, things were different. At Damascus, a furious mob twice attacked his hotel. The second onslaught, which started in "The Street That is Called Straight," almost ended in disaster, for when the gendarmes had nearly been overpowered French troops appeared and spanked off, with the flats of their swords, the seething crowd, which was yelling "Down with Balfour...
Though phonetics is the basis of simplified spelling, the Board has gone by no means as far as one of its oldest members, Melvil Dewey of Lake Placid, N. Y., believes the movement could be carried. Mr. Dewey employs phonetics with painstaking, sometimes cryptic thoroughness. At the Lake Placid Club, of which he is President, guests are familiar with such items as the following on his bill of fare: "krem of whet," "kofe," "fryd egz," "frut," "kak," "yc krem." In a letter apropos of articles on simple spelling, Mr. Dewey once wrote: "My sugjestion wud be a first articl...
...through it of late have gone a motley crew-peasants from the Caucasus, coatless students from Kiev, land-robbed landowners from the Volga Valley. They have turned sharply round the gate, up a stone staircase by the wall, into a low-vaulted room half-lost in the acres of masonry. There they have kissed the hands of a scarred and battered old priest, Basil Ivanovitch Baliavin, known to the world as the Most Reverend Dr. Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow, Patriarch of All Russia...
...today the University tennis team will leave on its Southern trip, to be gone for the entire recess. Captain W. W. Ingraham '25 will be unable to make the trip because of the pressure of divisional examinations, but will play at Providence and Columbia. The team, in the order in which its members play, follows: Alden Briggs '25, J. F. Whitbeck '27, Parke Cummings '25, G. H. Perkins '26, P. M. Lenhart '27, and L. H. Gordon...