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...WINTER ix APRIL-Robert Nathan- Knopf ($2). In his 13th novel Author Nathan's deft, gently ironic fantasy-now working as smoothly as a zipper-shows to its usual advantage. He has not forfeited the compliment once paid him by Louis Bromfield. "There are," said Novelist Bromneld of the works of Novelist Nathan, "no books in the world so pleasant to read just before turning...
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26 (IX...
Most Rev. Arthur Hinsley, 72, Archbishop of Westminster. Primate of 2,300,000 British Catholics. Since Pope Pius IX, in 1850, re-established the often suppressed British hierarchy, under Nicholas Patrick Stephen Cardinal Wiseman, the see of Westminster has traditionally been entitled to a cardinal. But Archbishop Hinsley, soon after his appointment to succeed the late Francis Cardinal Bourne in 1935, embarrassed the Church by his statements during the Italo-Ethiopian war. Replying energetically to the anti-Italian attacks of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Westminster announced that the Pope was powerless to intervene in the war because...
...English Dictionary, edited by Sir James A. H. Murray and others, under spit (Vol. IX, Pt. I, p. 628), he will find cited such English colloquialisms as: "you are a queer fellow-the very spit of your father." ... In The English Dialect Dictionary, edited by Joseph Wright, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Oxford, under spit (Vol. V, pp. 669-670), he will find other examples of old English usage: "that barn's as like his fadder as an he'd been spit out of his mouth." . . . The same saying is to be found...
...hope you will show me the same confidence and respect as you gave him," he said. Educated in Copenhagen's Metropolitanskole, he had served an 18-month term as a private in the army, often standing sentry duty on frosty nights outside the palace of his grandfather, Christian IX, who died in 1906. In 1898, the year in which he became Captain of the Royal Guards, the young giant married Alexandrine, Duchess of Mecklenburg. Christian has always been touchy about his height (6 ft. 6 in.), remarks petulantly "I know. I am too long." Last March when he passed...