Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife and nine children spent at an estate famous for its roses, Domain de Ranguin, five miles from Cannes, on the French Riviera. In the two weeks that followed, the red-faced, red-haired Boston Irishman went many times in the footsteps if not in the mood of Walter Page to the red-draped oak-and-leather office in Downing Street. There he saw a man like him only in that both are deeply religious, an extremely tall, gaunt, bony-faced man, with a sensitive mouth and a talent for gentleness, the Rt. Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount...
Walter Hines Page was an Anglophile, literary, philosophic. No Anglophile is grinning, cussing Joe Kennedy, known and loved by millions of English-speaking...
...Ambassador Page wrote: "We all have the feeling here that more and more frightful things are about to happen." On May 7, at 4 p. m. an aide handed Page a message: the Lusitania had been sunk by a German submarine and 1,198 men, women and children were drowned, 124 of them Americans. With that, Page dropped his last pretense at neutrality. He wrote: "I can see only one proper thing: that all the world should fall to and hunt this wild beast down...
...know their future problems. To find out what they would need to know after college, he went to the horse's mouth, asked college men and women who were out in the workaday world. To 1,600 Minnesota alumni and alumnae he sent a 52-page, illustrated questionnaire entitled "Building the University of Tomorrow." It asked them what kind of jobs they had, how much they made, what they thought of their bosses, whether they were happily married, whether they spanked their children, what they ate, where they bought their clothes, what they read, what movies they liked, what...
...none of the Treasury of American Prints was new, most were standard favorites: few of Critic Craven's prints were misprints. Big-shot artists such as Benton, Curry, Sloan and Wood were allotted five or six pages apiece, others from one to three. There were prints to suit everybody. People who itch and fidget when confronted with the self-conscious strainings of Thomas Benton's I Got a Girl on Sourwood Mountain could turn a page to his Lonesome Road. For people who consider John Steuart Curry's darkly violent lithograph Line Storm "theatrical," Critic Craven supplied...