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Some delegates were sympathetic, some embarrassed, but the League took no action against Mussolini. Haile Selassie returned to England, where he lived in a modest manor house outside Bath. Almost five years later, after the British army had driven the Italians from Addis Ababa, he returned to his mountain capital in triumph. His nation had lost several hundred thousand men in battle and in mass executions, but the Emperor issued orders to his countrymen that the Italian civilians who chose to stay in Ethiopia should be allowed to do so undisturbed...
...women, that is. It's hard to pin down the reasons for this, and of course they vary from case to case. One big factor is probably the fear that if you start something with a woman in your House, as opposed to a woman at Wellesley or Pine Manor, it will inevitably become something "intense." But another big factor is probably the mistaken impression that many men have that every Radcliffe woman has 2.5 men beating down her door. They just give up before they start. As a result, many of the women are developing all sorts of insecurities...
Chekhov could hardly have asked for a better autumnal mood than that of the opening at the manor house...
...Radcliffe J.V. vs. Pine Manor at Pine Manor...
Missing Ballots. George Parr inherited - and expanded - Archie's godfatherly political role. He grew rich when oil was discovered on Parr land, branched out into banking, beer distribution and other business interests, and built himself a walled Spanish-style manor that boasted a private race track...