Word: harding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...west to the pretty villages and rich hills and vales watered by the Evenlode. Following the winding roads and hedges, now crossing streams, now going through woods, seeing here a country house, there a little village, and perhaps a hunt in progress with Master, followers, and hounds hard on the heels of a fox, one senses again the pleasures of country living, knowing that the towers of Oxford are not far away
...Sweden, King Alfonso had greatly (perhaps politely) praised a thin, hard, and nearly tasteless rye bread or biscuit, famed in Sweden as knaeckebroed. Shrewdly a Swedish baker approached the admiral of the Principe Alfonso. "Might not His Majesty like a box of knaeckebroed to take home with him?" The Admiral thought he might...
...Tsar Cyril." Unlike most expounders of Spirituality, the Grand Duke Alexander turns readily to crisp and factual themes. As he paced toweringly about his hotel drawing-room, last week, it was not hard to see him as once he was, as the stern quarterdecker, "The Admiral of the Fleet" to Tsar Nicholas the Last...
...Fairfield Osborn, 71, president of the American Association. That presidency is the highest honor that U. S. and Canadian scientists can give a colleague. Yet its tenure is for only one year and a man must have a permanent post. What such post any one scientist considers best is hard to indicate. Generally the secretaryship of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington is best esteemed. To that secretaryship the Institution elected Dr. Osborn in 1906, upon the death of Samuel Pierpont Langley. Dr. Osborn declined. He preferred to stay on as assistant to the late President Jesup of the American Museum...
...Ziegfeld headlined her in the Follies of 1910; two years ago she made her debut as a dramatic actress in Fanny. She had an operation on her hooked nose to make her better looking, but she said; "I'd rather not be beautiful. It's hard to get a line on yourself if you're beautiful." One St. Patrick's Day "Nicky" Arnstein, sought throughout the U. S. for his share in a $5,000,000 bond robbery, got into a cab at his front door and drove through a police parade to headquarters where...