Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: ... It seems but fair that you do a bit more investigating into what Dr. Frederick A. Cook has done and what he has not done. I heard Dr. Cook lecture, very, very modest in his claims, immediately after he had returned through the angry-schoolboy newspaper and telegraphic firespittings...
Dankgebet. Next day's ceremonies in Cologne were even more impressive. In an extraordinary exhibition of railroad efficiency German trains had brought an estimated 2,000,000 people to the Rhine city. No sooner had they left the station than they were handed lapel buttons marked "The Rhineland is...
In two of the roles which she has made peculiarly her own, Bori said her goodby. First she was Violetta in La Traviata, sacrificing her happiness on the plea of the elder Germont who was Tibbett bewigged. At the end she was graceful Manon, beguiling Tenor Richard Crooks until he...
Since the days when Don Quixote went out and charged a windmill many a man has gone crusading for his crotchets. In the pages of London's augustly humorous Punch, Alan Patrick Herbert has for years been waging a single-handed combat against four humorless ogres: Prohibition, the Divorce...
Emma, Lady Hamilton did not start as a lady, and according to Biographer Bowen, achieved ladyhood only technically. Her real name was Amy Lyon; her father was a blacksmith. Her profession, which she adopted in her teens, was "pleasing the gentlemen." Sir Harry Featherstonehaugh kicked her out because she was...