Word: hinde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Patriotic Frenchmen are always vexed to remember that good Fascists insist on calling the hind side of Mont Blanc Monte Mussolini. Last week Il Duce entered geography again. As part of a really praiseworthy Fascist irrigation scheme 25,000 acres of Sardinian swamp land have been drained, restored to cultivation, settled with 2,000 immigrants from the mainland. Last week this new land was formally incorporated as a comune (township) invested by gracious permission of II Duce with the imposing title of Comune di Mussolinia di Sardegna...
Arthur Mayger Hind, of the British Museum, comes for the entire year as the Charles Ellot Norton Professor of Poetry." He is the Fourth incumbent of the chair, which was first held by Professor Gilbert Murray of Oxford University. Hind was from 1921 to 1927 Siade Professor of Fine Arts in the University of Oxford. During the war the served in France with the rank of major, receiving the Order of the British Empire. He is known in England for his critical works on paintings and engravings, and is him self a landscape painter...
...Drepperd provides. Apparently some of the best prints were used to illustrate books. The division of early American caricature is ably covered and serves to round out an excellently written and thoroughly serviceable book. In many ways the author has done for one section of prints what Hind has done for the whole field...
...spreading a net around one end of a fallen hollow tree, hunters in Arkansas last week caught a 98-lb. timber wolf with only two toes on his right hind...
...Before the week's close every single French delegate had left for Paris with the exception of Ambassador de Fleuriau, who had obvious reasons for staying be hind in his Embassy. In Paris Prime Minister Tardieu said that there was no possibility of his returning to the conference unless Lord there were "new developments." Lord Tyrrell, British Ambassador, called on Foreign Minister Briand, begged him to come back to a moribund parley. The Frenchman had left London with the announcement that he "might come back if there was anything...