Word: magdalene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britons capitulated even earlier to the vital, indiscreet Cleone when Lord Darling publicly declared: "Her diary must rank with ' that of Pepys' as a record of its time." Only an occasional reviewer dismissed the work as "that diverting hoax." Last week the "diarist" proclaimed herself. She is Magdalen King-Hall, 19, daughter of His Britannic Majesty's onetime Admiral Commanding on the Coast of Ireland (1906-08), Sir George Fowler King-Hall, K. C. B., retired...
...included in all histories of English literature like "The Journal of the Plague Year"; the great majority sink into the limbe of forgotten things with all too great a readiness. And in apparent contradiction to physics, the fall thereof is never as great as the rise: Miss Magdalen King-Hall is probably now meditating on this strange phenomenon...
...dream of an Oxford or a Cambridge on the banks of the Charles River. If it wished to be thoroughly initiative it would have no transplant the roots of English tradition with their growth of centuries, an incomparably harder task than supplying new elms for the Harvard Yard. A Magdalen or a Magdalene cannot be improvised. If the English colleges were imported and grafted on an American university they surely would suffer extraordinary sea change...
...after the "House" ball, perchance a Magdalen ball, a "Quaggers" ball and many other balls, at which the most sumptuous refreshments are served in an atmosphere unostentatiously aristocratic, Oxford will run its eyes, yawn and fall fast asleep for the summer...
...property, one of the richest men in Russia, and could, it was said, travel from one end of European Russia to another and sleep each night on his own property. He was educated in England at Eton and Oxford, being a contemporary of the present Prince of Wales at Magdalen College...