Word: historians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...best way to handle President Wilson was to tell him that President Poincare had just received a petition of loyalty and devotion to France from 150,000 French Saarlanders. There never were any such people. There never was any such petition. Its absurdity should have been obvious to Historian Wilson, but he yielded to the tall story of Journalist Clemenceau...
SOME years ago when the average reader thought of English converts to the Roman Catholic Church, he immediately recalled Messrs. Belloc, Chesterton, and D.B. Wyndham Lewis; now he adds perforce the name of Mr. Dawson. Mr. Dawson resembles his three associates in many respects: he is an historian, for example, who endeavours to re-write the Whig historians, whose anti-Catholic bias is one of the disgraces of modern historiography. Unlike Messrs. Belloc and Chesterton, Mr. Dawson is imbued with the modern ideal of impartiality, and even in his attempt to secure justice for the faith he never leans over...
First and most famed of the "Pillar Hermits" was St. Simeon Stylites (390-459 A. D.). According to Theodoret, a contemporary historian. Simeon was ejected from a monastery for practicing extreme austerities, took up his abode atop a 9-ft. pillar, made higher & higher pillars until he was finally ensconced on top of a 60-ft. column on which he lived for 36 years without once descending. The holy man hauled his food up with a rope, or it was carried up a ladder by his disciples, who founded monasteries nearby. Twentieth Century French diggers in Syria explored the great...
...fades quickly into staleness, fossilizes eventually into history. But most of it is simply forgotten: it lies abandoned in old newspaper files like heaps of dried lavender. Gradually, with the passage of years, its mustiness changes to a delicate old-fashioned odor. Editor ffrench,* a rummager rather than a historian, followed her nose through dusty English newspaper files (1805-87), pasted her miscellaneous finds into this 650-page album, calls it "the autobiography of the 19th Century." Erudite historians may find nothing startling in News from the Past, but 20th Century readers, if they have not lost their sense...
...Britain's great mathematicians is a bony, bulge-browed Peer named Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell of Kingston Russell, Viscount Amberley of Amberley & Ardsalla. He is also famed as a philosopher, logician, pacifist, historian, author, lecturer. But it is doubtful if the name of Bertrand Russell would ever have become a household word in English-speaking lands had not the blue-blooded Earl and his free-thinking second wife set out some years ago to educate the world in what they considered the ways of sexual happiness. Now familiar to every schoolgirl, their views once more made news...