Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Salvemini, who is visiting this country for only a short period to give several lectures before the New School of Social Research in New York City, is one of the outstanding figures in the life of modern Italy. As a professor in the University of Florence he became involved in politics serving as a Deputy of the Progressive School. Although at the outset he was in sympathy with the Fascist movement, and one of the leading contributors to Mussolini's journals, he gradually broke away from the new party, until after the institution of the repressive system of Mussolini...
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LADY HAIG will be most grateful if anyone POSSESSING LETTERS from her LATE HUSBAND or with PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE of INCIDENTS in his LIFE, particularly in his earlier years, which may contain matter of historical or personal interest, will send to her such letters or send her brief descriptive statements of such incidents. Communications should be addressed to her personally at Bemersyde, St. Boswells, Scotland. Letters and statements are required to furnish material for the official life of the Field-Marshal which will be written at some future time. All letters will be carefully preserved and copied and the originals returned...
When each of some 665,000-members of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, General Federation of Women's Clubs, National Council of Jewish Women and Metropolitan Life Insurance policyholders-ripped open the envelopes of her mail last week, there slipped into her hand from one envelope a pamphlet which bore on its face the horrendous word cancer. "What Every Woman Should Do About Cancer" was the pamphlet's title. It was part of the American Society for the Control of Cancer's latest effort to reach 8,000,000 U. S. women...
...provincials admired Caligula. That was not his real name. His real name was Gaius Caesar. But, because he was charming as a little boy when he plopped in soldiers' boots along the Rhine with his father Germanicus, everyone called him, and con tinued to call him through his short life, Caligula. Caligula means "Little Boots...