Word: leiden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was one man last week who did not share in the high hopes for a lasting settlement. In his pleasant brick villa near Leiden, lean Bertho van Suchtelen liked to dream of the old days when he was governor of Sumatra East Coast-days to him of peace and order in the East Indies under the good Queen's kindly rule. When The Netherlands' Queen Mother Emma died, van Suchtelen had remained for a full hour before her wreathed picture in rigid mourning pose...
...West, Young Man. Oppenheimer came back from Europe (after further study at Leiden and Zurich) with a racking cough. The doctors feared T.B., and advised the young man to go west. In New Mexico, near the spot where he had vacationed with Herbert Smith, Oppenheimer leased a ranch 35 miles from Santa...
...Leiden, Juliana wrote a three-act comedy called Bluebeard. It was a slightly Shavian version of the story, with Bluebeard depicted as a psychiatrist and golf enthusiast; Juliana herself played one of Bluebeard's wives. Another time, she tried her hand at poetry; her anonymous entry in a class contest was judged "song of the year." The refrain went...
When Juliana told her mother about her achievement, the Queen said: "Don't get excited. They gave you the prize because you are the Princess." Juliana brought this story back to Leiden, whereupon the student jury wrote a respectful letter to Her Majesty, assuring her that the poem had won on its own merits...
...news of last week's doings in the Nieuwe Kerk, see RELIGION. * Vereeniging van Vrouwelijke Studenten (Society of Women Students), Leiden...