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...munitions worker. In his spare time Littlewood prepared a primer based on the study of Russian, Latin, Greek, French, Welsh, Arabic and Basic English. Unlike Esperanto, Universal Pidgin seldom uses more than two syllables in any word, telescopes these with borrowed syllables to make new words. Sample: "Yon fo gret blu form bel" (Those four great blue flowers are beautiful...
...President Sloan and Director Lie resigned. Jonas Lie's resignation was not accepted. Mollified, he withdrew it. The Board had another wordy meeting trying to decide whether to accept President Sloan's resignation "with deepest regret," "with regret," or with no regret at all. They accepted it "with re- gret." Explained President Sloan...
...Trent when Edward of Wales flew down from London, visited the brewhouse, mixed for himself a special vat of extra strong mash to be known as ''Prince's Brew." Waiting at the flying field to greet him was the Chairman of the Company, Colonel the Right Honorable John Gret-ton. Conservative M. P. for the Burton Division of Staffordshire. Waving proudly over the old brewery was a great banner lettered GOOD HEALTH TO OUR PRINCE. Edward of Wales attended a special luncheon after which he sampled with relish five separate and distinct brews, including a famed ale made...
...Responsibility for the faux pas that played hob with the pleasant relationship with Japan and the United States rests in about equal proportions upon the Secretary of State, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, and, we re-(Continued on Page 24) (Continued from Page 20) gret to have to say in fairness to others, the Japanese Ambassador. We may as well be frank about it. Mr. Hanihara unwittingly made an error, Mr. Hughes guilelessly made a blunder, and Senator Lodge made unwarranted use of both error and blunder...
Robin's life and friends at the University, his familyand their friends at Grote and in London are pictured interestingly vivdly. Robin's relations with his mother, her afair with the gret Kuhlmann, and as a background, the whole fabrie of English social life before the cataclysm of 1914 are charmingly depicted. Even Mr. Benson's rather slip-shop style seems less obtrusive as the author approaches that great crisis when the destinyof nations trembled in the balance...