Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apropos of the James family the following incident might be of interest...
Last week Detroit lost, and Copenhagen was about to gain a rare and spectacular British diplomatic hostess. Leslie C. Hughes-Hallett, British consul in Detroit, sailed from Manhattan to become consul general at Copenhagen. Of greater interest was the fact that Consul Hughes-Hallett was taking along his blue-eyed, dark-haired wife, Violet Holmes-Tidy Hughes-Hallett. She likes snakes and rats...
...little man with twinkling* SURGEONS ALL-Rich & Cowan, London (18s.). eyes. . . . When he was lecturing he had a little wand of whalebone tipped with silver," which he used to point out organs he was dissecting. "A lecture on the liver ... he transformed into a subject of vital interest by ... references to bearbaiting and cockfighting, football and the ballet, and a strange bird in his Majesty's aviary. . . . Then he would conclude with a spirited attack on the fashion of lacing young girls till their waists were compressed . . . and their livers were fantastically deformed...
Lawrence took no interest in women but was sometimes friendly, usually polite. But Liddell Hart tells of his sitting at dinner next a French duchess who gushed about the marvelous nights in the East. "Sweaty, aren't they?" said...
...morrow's voting to be constitutionally discontinued. This is the extent to which the Student Council is confident of a confirmation for its stand. The referendum comes when the whole class is politically conscious and expectant over the outcome. It comes when many Yardling groups have a vested interest in the current election, and are consequently unwilling to forego a chance to vote. It comes with such lightning rapidity that every freshman will hesitate to take such a mighty step with such great dispatch...