Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good blood, the blue of his maternal great grandsire Earl Grey (Prime Minister 1830-34); .and so the Great Queen kept "that dear Ponsonby child" in her service for five whole years, placing him less than a decade later in the Diplomatic Service. Unfortunate Victoria! She could not know that in 1929?in fact this month?onetime Page Ponsonby would publish a most scathing and compactly venomous report exposing lies and shady tricks used by Allied and British statesmen...
...secret" of the conference which can now be told. One of the two Chinese delegates, Dr. Wellington Koo and Dr. Alfred Sze, appeared with a superbly ornate fountain pen which disappeared soon after he loaned it to the other. Correspondents think they know what happened to the pen. Think they noticed that the two statesmen were temporarily estranged, stranger than fiction though the story...
Professor Babbitt is, of course, a faculty member of the very university whose fundamental bases of teaching he so caustically criticizes, and should know somewhat whereof he speaks.....He declares American education, as typified by his university, has been granted so much liberty that it is now approaching license, and advocates a return to a more rigid standards and restrictions...
...point of view the choice of Professor Greenough and Professor Coolidge as heads of the first two Houses is a happy one. Professor Greenough has served a considerable term of years in the dean's office both as assistant and head dean. Any students who have had occasion to know him in this capacity can testify to his eminent fitness for a position in which the faculty to understand and guide undergraduates will be a prime requisite. Professor Coolidge, a man of lively perception and liberal sympathies, has also impressed the charm of his personality on the somewhat smaller number...
...familiar with the facts too obvious to need proof. The picture Mr. Pringle draws of the Yale man is only slightly less amusing to a Harvard undergraduate than the similar caricatures of himself that he may have been surprised to find are taken seriously by people who ought to know better. And yet it is a strange fact that while no one would believe such tales about clerks or office boys, for the collegian there are scarcely any bounds of credibility...