Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a few polished phrases, His Grace the Duke of Connaught unveiled at Hyde Park corner a vast squat howitzer of cut stone, London's War memorial to the Royal Artillery. As it loomed above the traffic that sweeps past St. George's Hospital, Britons felt a crinkly shiver along their spines. Four titanic bronze artillerymen give to the composition a gruesome air of stark reality, making the cold stone of the howitzer seem like colder steel...
...into English, he conveys to his audience the emotions of a man torn between two loves, one for a dancer the other for his wife. He employs characters of a symbolic nature such as "The Reasonable Self" and "The Emotional Self". These characters engage in a sort of Jekyll-Hyde conflict, terminating in a decision to love the dancer wholeheartedly and final suicide on the part of the "actor" whose emotions are being depicted to the audience. The entire action of the play is supposed to take place in the brain of a man in half a second's time...
...conversations proceeded that afternoon until about 6 o'clock. At the Hyde Park Hotel, M. Briand was besieged by clamorous reporters. To them he said: "The French and British viewpoints regarding the security compact have come materially closer together as a result of today's conversations. I believe-no, you may say I am confident-that one more meeting tomorrow will suffice for us to arrive at an agreement on the wording of the reply to Germany...
...statesmen posed for the ubiquitous cameramen, beaming and cracking jokes in French. "Non," he had nothing to say for publication. The two custodians of their respective countries' foreign policies exchanged smiles and followed them up with an exchange of hearty farewells. M. Briand sped away to the Hyde Park Hotel in Knightsbridge. Mr. Chamberlain betook him to his residence in Morpeth Mansions...
...hiatus occurred in the conversations at lunch time. At the French Embassy in Albert Gate House, Hyde Park, a great assemblage of dignitaries rendered homage to M. de Fleurian's cuisine. Most distinguished of the guests was Alanson B. Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, attired immaculately as ever, owlish in his heavy horn-rimmed spectacles. His presence at the political feast, considered a signficant sign of U. S. interest in the security parley, despite unequivocal and official denials, was a topic of discussion for days after. Rightly or wrongly...