Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prince Saionji's life span was staggering. This was a man who was intimate not only with Balfour, Clemenceau, Hindenburg, Wilson, but who wrestled in the flesh with the Emperor Meiji when the latter was a boy, heard Franz Liszt play his own music, talked politics with Prince Bismarck, had audiences with Queen Victoria and Ulysses S. Grant. As a student in Paris he saw the Commune of 1871 and learned liberalism in its laboratory. His public services were those which would have made five men great: Minister to Vienna and Berlin, president of the Privy Council, vice president...
...that you published in TIME, Oct. 7 an article wherein you stated that in Montreal I had referred to the child refugees from England as "riffraff." You also made some sarcastic remarks about my giving some of my so-called "blue blood" to the British Red Cross, but that latter statement is unimportant and you have every right to sneer at me if you so wish to do for giving what was so very much demanded in New York through the radio. But I must ask you to . . . retract the statement that I said or even went anywhere near saying...
...heard in Tokyo seemed certain, for the House of Morgan was once U. S. banker for Japan. That some of his words would suggest to Japanese how they looked to Western eyes also seemed certain: "I have made many friends in China and scores in Japan, some of the latter, because of their liberal views, having alas! met death at the hands of assassins...
...spun out, the testimony seemed confirm the frequent assertion that Communist zealots will use any means to achieve their desired ends. The court heard that Elvira Copelo had been the mistress of one of Prestes' closest comrades. After the latter went to jail in 1938, the girl often visited him, took messages to Communists outside. The Brazilian police found her a handy, unconscious guide to the hideaways of agitators. One day six Brazilians went to the house of Elvira Copelo, were asked in for coffee. When Elvira Copelo at length rose to clear away the coffee cups...
...writers know how to tell a story. Story-weaving is a craft old as flax-weaving, decorative as peasant embroidery, difficult as silversmithing. Thus old tales like The Thousand and One Nights, the fabliaux, The Canterbury Tales, the Grimms' folk stories have a magic rarely found in latter ages. That this magic is less a patina than the product of skill and feeling is shown by the occasional appearance of a real storyteller's story. Such is Franz Werfel's Embezzled Heaven...