Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next autumn there will be four new buildings so that the students will no longer have to hike three miles to classes. But John Williamson is proudest of his graduates' accomplishments. More than 400 have important church jobs. There is a Westminster Choir School in Japan, another in India. A Westminster graduate teaches music at the Silliman Institute in the Philippine Islands. Studying with Dr. Williamson now are natives of Korea, Brazil, a bushman from South Africa...
...Forster-Harcourt, Brace ($3). Full-length biography of a great scholar-humanist, by the author of A Passage to India...
...German girl child was born in London 115 years ago last week to become Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and later Empress of India. Thus did Britain become an Empire. Last week on Victoria's birthday Britain and her Commonwealth of Nations celebrated Empire Day. ¶ In Ottawa, Canada's Premier Bennett raised his voice to tell a Canadian Chamber of Commerce luncheon in London by wireless telephone: "All our ideas of Empire have changed except that of devoted allegiance to the Crown.'' ¶ In Cape Town, General Jan Christiaan Smuts declared: ''Secession...
...buxomness had hardened into armor plate. Tilly, who died young, became the family saint. Cora married a doctor, went to London. Meg simmered and soured into spinsterhood. Ethel, the best of the lot, rushed into marriage with a beef-eating young naval officer. Anemic Bertram got a job in India, toyed with mysticism and was homesick. As they grew into pre-War maturity they all became hopelessly more & more the same thing...
Beginning when Henry Linden brings his bride Manella home from India to live amongst his old British family tree, awaiting the building of his own little nest, we travel space through her affair with his brother, and the resulting complications to where his brother's original country-gal wife, loving her husband and still liking his seductress, walks into the burning barn and thus out of the picture. The following nervous breakdowns, maddened raving, etc., turn what started out a very clever snappy job into a rather morbid dissection of human passion and pain...