Word: grier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Grier, a young Englishman on his travels, arrived in Japan, Tokyo's streets were still full of rickshas. Though Japan had beaten Russia and was beginning to emulate the West in other ways, its civilization was still essentially Oriental. Grier found it a quaint, delightful country. Its manners charmed, its emotions baffled, its women fascinated him. To his discovery that "in their attitude to sex the Japanese are a millennium ahead," a skeptical fellow-foreigner retorted that emotionally they were an incarnation behind. Grier could not be sure, set himself to solve the puzzle by falling in love...
...until last week did the long, arduous and honorable public career of Sir Selwyn Macgregor Grier become notable to the rest of the British Empire. Son of an English vicar, Sir Selwyn won intramural fame as a classical scholar at Cambridge, spent four years as a humble schoolmaster before entering the British colonial service in Nigeria in 1906. While in West Africa he rose from Assistant Resident, Northern Nigeria to Director of Education of the Southern Provinces. By last week he was safe in comfortable anonymity as King George's representative in St. Vincent, British West Indies. Last week...
Labor troubles and complaints against high British customs duties started in St. Vincent's Kingstown months ago, but caused no apprehension to Governor Grier and his staff until the outbreak of hostilities in Ethiopia gave black agitators a chance to whip up the beginnings of a fine race riot...
Sweeping aside Kingstown's few policemen, hoodlums tore through the streets, caught Governor Grier squarely in front of the courthouse. Only by promising to meet and talk with the strike leaders was Sir Selwyn released, but jabbering blacks wrecked his car as well as those of Supreme Court Judge Williams and Attorney General Ross...
...ready for the second phase of its program-to persuade or compel the cinema industry to produce better (i. e. more moral) pictures. First step was to acquire active officers with influential names. Last month Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who had headed the Council after the death of John Grier Hibben, stepped up and out of the picture by becoming honorary president. To succeed him as president, the Council elected Mrs. August Belmont, who before her marriage was Actress Eleanor Robson. For her George Bernard Shaw wrote his ablest social service play, Major Barbara. Of late years Mrs. Belmont...