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...Magnus: . . . This may be a great idea...
...also to face the immensely strong position of the U.S. in such an alliance. Many a Briton might recall that, back in 1929, prescient old George Bernard Shaw had written a play called The Apple Cart. In that play U.S. Ambassador Vanhattan calls on Britain's King Magnus...
...Magnus (collapsing into his chair): The devil you will...
...looks back upon two years and five engagements in the First World War as a member of the 28th Division Field Hospital in France. He enjoys a solid reputation as a composer to topnotch polyphonic religious music, including several motets, a setting for the pontifical processional "Ecce Sacordes Magnus," and a man in honor of St, Jude. No less solid is his reputation as a composer of hit parade ballads, including "Lonesome," which was written for Helen Morgan, "The Moon in Here," and a stirring war song scheduled to roll off the press in a few days, "Hands Off America...
...engraving from a sixteenth-century book, a Latin tome on the history of the northern races by a Norse bishop called Olus Magnus, shows fighters on skis driving ski-less pike-men before them. But according to a Runic stone, a cut of which is on display in the exhibit, men of Upsala, Sweden, hunted on skis as early...