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Puckish little Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner is famed for his keen Socialist intellect. So is his wife who winces at being called Lady Passfield, insists she is Beatrice Webb. Lately these two leading Socialists, Laborites and economists set out on a junket to Moscow. If they thought they would receive a luxurious welcome such as was lavished last year on George Bernard Shaw (TIME, Aug. 10), they were right. The Soviet Government threw open its expensive "Guest House" for the Lord & Lady. With the discrimination of an epicure Lord Passfield ate and ate of caviar...
...novel Puritan's Progress (1931) Author Train credited U. S. Puritans with having a sense of mirthless humor that is a kind of coal-tar derivative from their "keen scent for the fumes of Hell." In contradistinction to this darkling humor he sets "gaiety, the most comprehensive of virtues, for it signifies faith, hope, charity and courage." In Princess Pro Tern he tosses all four ingredients generously into the potboiler, serves up a book that, whatever its faults...
...ties between Oxford and its old members. . . . There are many ways in which they can help her-with advice, with encouragement, with backing in the outside world, as well as with financial support. The university needs money, but she needs perhaps more the invigorating influence which comes from a keen and active body of old members...
...Street refreshments, it is much as ever that the head of the family can penetrate to the banks of the Charles. But on Soldiers Field a baseball game presents a more compromising picture, and to a younger generation whose baseball interests have dwindled in the past few years, the keen-eyed graduate recalls that golden spring afternoon twenty-five years ago when Dexter scored to beat Yale 2 to 1 in ten innings...
Died. Dr. William Williams Keen, 95, famed brain & nerve surgeon, wit, professor emeritus of surgery at Jefferson Medical College; of old age; in Philadelphia. Twice captured and exchanged during the Civil War, he was an Army surgeon during the Spanish War, was largely responsible for paratyphoid inoculation of U. S. troops in the World War. Surgeon Keen assisted in the secret removal of a sarcoma from the mouth of Stephen Grover Cleveland in 1893. Fearing the precarious financial situation would be aggravated by news of his cancer, President Cleveland had the operation performed aboard Elias C. Benedict's yacht...