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...British Museum's most popular treasures. Keeper of Oriental Antiquities Robert Lockhart Hobson was most excited about a green bronze ram dating from 1200 B. c. and valued at ?10,000. And there was plenty more: Ming vases. T'ang burial figures, carved jades, Hawthorn jars, gold, bronze and ivory figures, in all about 3,000 pieces bought for Britain this month at a cost of ?100,000 from a faun-faced elderly Greek named George Eumorfopoulos...
...truck driver. His ami was stretched through the second fence when, like a cat after a bird, a lion leaped, sank its great fangs, pulled him down into the pit. Three other lions pounced. While onlookers screamed helplessly, the lions dragged Stanley Stenson off into a clump of English hawthorn, crunched him to death...
Last night's performance, under the management of N. P. Farquhar '32, was played by the following cast: Mrs. Persimmons, W. O. Faxon '32; Mrs. Hawkins, Sturtevant Burr '31; Mrs. Migrain, Francis Hoague '31; Mac Truck, N. P. Farquhar '32; Tommy Hawthorn, S. C. Dorman '33; Brock Kerreth, P. S. Carter '34; "Hermes" Austin, R. B. Harrison '32; Betty Landingstone, R. W. Kuhl '32; Anita Gale, J. H. Pearson '32; radio announcer, W. M. Marvel '30; reporter, Arthur Barrett...
...grains- The Oriental Giles. Blunden looks long at familiar things; sometimes his best poetry is the result: Sprawl not so monster-like, blind mist; I know not "seems"; I am too old a realist To take sea-dreams From you, or think a great white Whale Floats through our hawthorn-scented vale- This foam-cold vale. So long and lovingly does he look that when he speaks, he tells of things many a reader's restless eye may never notice. From love's wide-flowering mountainside I chose This sprig of green, in which an angel shows...
Even so King George passed a melancholy birthday. He lay in his rubber-tired bed by the window of his room in Victoria Tower, looking out at the white blossoms of the hawthorn trees in Windsor Great Park...