Word: packets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particularly clever British ruse. During the Ethiopian War, swarthy millions believed that Colonel Lawrence was alive in Addis Ababa advising Haile Selassie. Some think he is now in Western Ethiopia and will yet pluck victory for the Lion of Judah. Last week in London was auctioned off a packet of letters from Lawrence which were extracted from him by ingenious Ernest Thurtle, a Manhattan-born member of the House of Commons. In 1929 Mr. Thurtle rose in debate to expostulate against the alleged Afghanistan activities of Lawrence, who was then flying with the Royal Air Force in India as "Aircraftsman...
...Greene explained that all other records of the event, in the form of letters, programs, etc., would be filed in the archives of Widener, along with the packet sealed by President Conant which is to be opened in 2036; and certainly those in Cambridge 100 years hence will have a quantity of material to hash over...
Sealing up a packet of documents for Harvard's quadricentennial celebration, President Conant yesterday morning turned the eyes of the university away from the past and towards the coming years. What the future holds for Harvard, or indeed for the world, no one can accurately tell. But if the "university tradition" of the past gives indication of a healthy future, certainly Harvard starts her fourth century with a firm stride...
...home, seated at his table. You can see he has been enjoying himself - there are heads and tails of her rings on a plate, a bottle which has contained stout, and a glass which betrays the fact that he has drunk the stout. There is also a half-empty packet of cigarets. The happy gentleman is all alone and he is leaning back in his chair playing his cornet. What is he playing? Well, I've called the picture I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls." The name of the piece is the only thing not made explicitly clear...
Peter Brand was a successful London businessman who had two passions and no other interests: his work and his wife Christina. When his wife died Brand nearly went out of his head with helpless grief. One day he found a packet of her letters in a locked drawer. They were not addressed to anybody, but they were love-letters. He also found an address book. Because he was frightfully in love with his wife and because he knew she had had "artistic" friends, Brand became convinced that she had had a lover. Feeding his suspicions on whiskey and insomnia...