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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last sentence refers to a recent speech by Mr. Kellogg before the American Society of International Law, wherein he declared that a nation signatory to the Kellogg Pact would not be deprived of the right to make war in self defense. This interpretation the British have now broadened to mean virtually that any war in which His Majesty's Government may choose to engage will be pro facto a war of self defense...
...Arithmetically speaking this would mean that within five years the Prime Minister has lost eleven twelfths of his fortune...
...inscription is "DESTROYED BY TEUTONIC FOLLY; RESTORED BY AN AMERICAN GIFT." He added that Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of the University of Louvain has finally ruled that the epithet "furore" shall stand. When curious persons turned to Latin dictionaries, last week, to see if "juror" could be stretched to mean "folly." they found as authorized synonyms "delusion," "frenzy," "madness," "rage" and "fury." Nobody's Latin except Architect Warren's could make "furor" mean "folly," as distinct from insanity...
...Father. This is August Strindberg's furious fancy about a man who married an incredibly mean wife. Eager to hold absolute control of her daughter, she drove her husband mad, then poisoned him. As ineptly performed by Robert Whittier, who puffed and bellowed like a sick seal, the play is lightened of its hatred, its horror, and, indeed, of any effect...
...greater facilities will not mean an increase in enrolment, but better conditions for the students to work under. The present enrolment is a little over 1500, and it is estimated that the new plant will accommodate satisfactorily only...