Word: les
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well aware of these practices, Episcopal churchmen have mostly maintained a discreet silence. One who spoke out bitterly last week was 33-year-old Rev. C. Leslie ("Les") Glenn of famed old Christ Church, Cambridge, son-in-law of wealthy Harper Sibley, who sits on the potent Episcopal National Council. Cried Rector Glenn...
...South Africa, took the chair while the delegation orators occupied the rostrum. The gathered company was nonplussed when the first speaker, Yale's and France's Pierre Bori, delivered a stylistically brilliant address in his native tongue, propounding classic bromides about civilization, liberte, securite, and Gallic defense "contre les hordes sauvages." Another native language speaker on the program was the gentleman from Greece, whose lucubration occupied a quarter of an hour, and absorbed as much more time for translation. Star of the undergraduates was Malcolm Hoffman '34, no mean successor to Edwin L. Popper '31, who once kept the assembly...
Fine Arts--"Les Doux Orphelines". Notable because of the acting of Yvette Guilbert and some excellent photography. Otherwise not so good unless one likes a French combination of "Little Women" and "David Copperfield...
...door banged. Alfred Haine who runs a little inn in the village of Marche-les-Dames looked up just at dinner time to see a man in tweeds, very pale, very breathless, but despite his nervousness, very polite...
...where he himself longed to be, at Adelbogen, high in the Swiss Alps. For a passionate Alpinist most of Belgium is as flat as a hand but lusty Albert thought he knew a place. Only a few days earlier the Belgian Cabinet had set aside the cliffs near Marche-les-Dames as a national park. Marche-les-Dames-"The Walk of the Ladies"- got its name from 139 Noble Widows of Crusaders who in 1101 pooled their resources, built an abbey above those cliffs and retired there to spend the rest of their lives. King Albert knew that the cliffs...