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...aristocratic birth in Abyssinia. Mother of six and a voracious reader of Western classics, she heaved herself from a special train onto Jerusalem's railroad station platform while a British band blared "The Lion of the Tribe of Judah is Victor!" -Abyssinia's national anthem. No pagan but a Coptic Christian, Her Majesty had come not only to visit Christian shrines but also to dedicate an Abyssinian Coptic Christian Church. Jerusalem's handful of Abyssinians excitedly waved date palms. A crowd of Coptic priests, Abyssinian officials and Palestine's Acting High Commissioner Mark Aitchison Young...
...with her family when she was eight. A shining advertisement for Manhattan's public schools, College of the City of New York and Columbia University, she speaks seven languages, has published a translation of Boccaccio's Decameron, three historical novels (The Ardent Flame, The Golden Round, Pagan Interval...
...Nazis appeared in Berlin wearing strips of animal skins and ancient Teutonic horned caps. Loudly touting a return to the worship of Thor and Wodan they celebrated in a Berlin stadium the "Festival of the Swastika" (Nazi symbol), seemed to consider their acts religious. Sunday found banners with the pagan swastika or Hakenkreuz ("hooked cross") stuck up beside the cross of Christ in a majority of Berlin churches, though not in the provinces. Preaching from the text He that is not with me is against me, Hitler's fiery acting Reichsbischof Miiller thundered: "Adolf Hitler has been sent...
...theatrical reforms of Madame Vestris, by Leo Waitzkin '33. The following theses have appeared in previous years: "Poetical Intoxication," by W. N. Bates '30; "Shakspere and the Ireland Forgeries," by Derk Bodde '30; "The Respectability of Mr. Bernard Shaw," by Ayers Brinser '31; "The Creed of a Victorian Pagan," by Robert Peel '31; and "Shilling Shockers of the Gothic School," by W. W. Watt '32. Publication of honors theses is made possible by a grant from the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers...
...like the term jazz". It always signifies something more or loss crude. Ours is a certain type of American music that has caught the spirit of the music-loving world. Look at Olsen, Lombardo, Bernie--even in Europe--Paris, Berlin, London--this new American music has caught like wildfire. Pagan it may be called, but nevertheless just look how it's used. But we decry the word 'jazz.' Which reminds me, now that beer's here, there's going to be a great change in the music world, and people are going to learn to appreciate our style more...