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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Home Secretary was said at Buckingham Palace to have offended Queen Mary by what she considered the "levity" of his public allusions to George V's condition. Since Sir William has the official duty of presiding at and certifying royal births and deaths, the British public look to him as the highest political authority on His Majesty's illness...
...just walk away from the dancing, this way, across the tennis courts. The stars are out, aren't they? Why, I can carry it. Well. The pines look dark and cool there, don't they? Yes, but I think it's more like a poem by Sand-burg: "In the dusk, in the cool tombs." Tombs of what? Oh, tombs of all the summer boys like you, who say so much they don't mean...
...soon adapt themselves to the ways of Oxford, and, on the whole, fit well into the life of the University. Naturally the differences in native ability, temperament, and training make for differences in accomplishment. Some Rhodes Scholars have had a very successful. Oxford career, although their accomplishments would not look like much on paper. They have done well in their Schools, they have taken an active though unobtrusive part in the life of their College. Such a man may well contribute as much to his English friends in human values as the most brilliant First or the flashiest Blue...
...place to look for Jesus is in the Jewish synagogs, he solemnly assured his congregation. More of the religion of Jesus is taught in the synagogs than in all the Christian churches put together...
...girl, who has always wanted to be a dancer, crashes through in the final act when the star falls to appear and she's really much better anyway, as we knew she would be. The same young lady is the high light of the evening, being extremely pleasant to look upon and quite in evidence most of the time. She also performs several Spanish dances, clicking castanettes and swinging about in the traditional fashion. If you're an expert on such dances you'll know more about how good they are than...