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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...44th birthday. When the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires, William Perry George, arrived at the Palace, a large and ostensibly impromptu Ethiopian crowd suddenly produced small U. S. flags from beneath their loose garments, waved these frantically and shrilled something that was supposed to sound like "Long live America!" During the birthday reception, the Abouna Kyrillos, head of Ethiopia's Christian Coptic Church, stood with his large right foot prominently planted on the base of the Emperor's Throne. Grouped around His Majesty were potent chiefs, headed by Ras Moulougueta, Minister of War. Pointedly absent...
...miles back to England, sent a frigate to punish the mutineers. When the frigate reached Tahiti, only a few of the mutineers were there to be hanged. The rest had sailed the Bounty to Pitcairn Island where they had beached and burned her and where their descendants still live...
...Weibel hoped that the baby would live, for newborn infants have tremendous vigor. This baby died two hours after delivery. Gossip soon ran through Vienna to the effect that it died because Dr. Weibel had paused for two minutes during the breakdown of the cinema camera. Bureaucrats in the Austrian Ministry of Education heard the talk. The State Secretary, Dr. Pernter, called Dr. Weibei to account. He explained that in eclampsia the child poisons the mother's blood and the mother's blood in turn poisons the child. In this case, said he, "autopsy next day showed conclusively...
...master of indirection, he begins unobtrusively with an account of contemporary Don Fernando, fat, dirty tavern keeper who forced on him a biography of Saint Ignatius Loyola. Ignatius, who disappointed a noble family, sacrificed his influence with the great, and in the flower of his youth went to live among the poor, captured Author Maugham's imagination. He visited the town where Loyola had suffered, even attempted some of Loyola's milder exercises for mortifying the flesh, but only made himself ill without ecstasy. Bringing his imagination more sharply into focus, he peered through the popular novels...
CICERO - G. C. Richards - Houghton Mifflin ($3). A prudent, patriotic, eloquent Roman genius, Marcus Tullius Cicero had the historical misfortune to live at a time when the more spectacular genius of Julius Caesar dwarfed all lesser men. Cicero's deeds have been forgotten, and he is remembered as the author of great models of Latin prose over which schoolboys still suffer. Last week Dr. George Chatterton Richards, offering a biography that called belated attention to the great orator's political virtues, tried to show the heroism and timeliness of Cicero's many middle-of-the-road perplexities...