Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meet the Prince. A. A. Milne hasn't been quite the same since he took to hanging out at Pooh Corner. There was a time when he used acids that ate their way through the softness of his whimsy. Now he has gone completely dolce far niente. It may be Pooh Corner, but it is not life...
Last week, a group of stragglers arrived late for a Toscanini concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. They clattered down the aisle, banged down their seats, threw back their coats. They may have thought themselves unnoticed but the little man on the conductor's dais had been disturbed. He wheeled on them, crossed his arms in a Napoleonic attitude, stared them up and down and said, quite distinctly, "You are late!" Philadelphia audiences have been frequently rebuked by Conductor Leopold Stokowski; Manhattan, never before...
...Subjected to undue stresses it splits and cracks. Thus the transportation of marble is ticklish, and cannot be done with casual maneuvering as can steel girders. Sculptors exercise prodigious care in moving marble statuary from studios to sites. One fissure will ruin the labor of years, and one fissure may be produced by the slip of one gawkish moving...
...Henry Knox Sherrill, rector of Trinity Church, Boston, was Bishop Garland's first choice. A graduate of Yale, aged only 38, Dr. Sherrill is popular, attractive. During the War he was an A. E. F. chaplain. Offered the Philadelphia position last May, Dr. Sherrill graciously explained that he preferred to stay in Boston...
...international army, not especially British. If the idea prevails that one nation dominates, that is the rock on which we may split...