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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same can be said for the dazzling collection of esoteric invective Mr. D. Bevan Wyndham Lewis has slung into the Dedication to his matchless excursion into the medieval, Francois Villon. It is sheer artistry, and while the General's list is a mere list, Mr. Lewis' is a stylistic delight...
...Check your mailing list and remove my name so I will not receive any more such trash and insults. You have the nerve to say 'white persons only' as though being white was a badge of honor...
...Britain's part in the Czechoslovak crisis, the Government of Neville Chamberlain is proud of the way its diplomats did their jobs during the trying month of September 1938. Most notable group to be singled out on the King's New Year's honors list last week were men who commanded Britain's diplomatic front-line trenches from Berchtesgaden to Munich...
Britain as a whole is probably prouder of the great Queen Mary and new Queen Elizabeth than of the peace of Munich. So their builders were also remembered on the King's honors list at the suggestion of the Prime Minister. A knighthood went to Stephen Joseph Pigott, managing director of the John Brown shipyards where they were built. The award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire went to George Patterson (Cunard-White Star's chief naval architect) and Donald M. Skiffington (John Brown yard director). Honest Tommy Rankin, foreman of the riveters...
...conditions of men have gained admittance- ambassadors and auctioneers, ornithologists and explorers, magicians and Presidents of the U. S. Actors have always formed a powerful minority. Only dramatic critics are excluded by rule-to avoid the possible embarrassment of having them run into actors they have panned. The long list of celebrated members includes Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain, Sir Henry Irving, the elder J. P. Morgan, Elihu Root, John Singer Sargent (whose Edwin Booth hangs in the club), George Bellows, John Philip Sousa, Richard Mansfield, and the club's three Presidents who followed Booth-Joseph Jefferson, John Drew...