Word: philipe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frail, twisted figure of a man hobbles into the House of Commons. Doorkeepers pity his crippled body, and portals open as the tapping thump of his two rubber-tipped canes approaches. But statesmen do not pity the Right Honorable Philip Snowden. They respect the power and swiftness of his mind, fear the sting of his unpleasant, rasping tongue. He, as Britain's only Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented a maiden budget (TIME, May 12, 1924), so clear and masterful that cheers rang from every quarter of the House. Now, since Labor has gone out and Conservatism come...
...number. One could hardly imagine a more charming prelude--a boy and girl wandering across a fairy heath where on near the witch tree and far from the enchanted castle they meet a glant and discover elves; all this in exquisite tinis and April airlness. What a clever hand Philip Boone must have, I said; and I turned to the pictures within to see how the other articles had expressed the spirit of whimsey which must twinkle in story books. I did not find dear Kate Green-away as I had hoped, but I was gladdened by the sight...
...constitution and behavior of the evening primrose [Oenothera]"! What services would be rendered mankind by Dr. Frederick Charles Dietz of the University of Illinois, studying "English government finance from 1558 to 1640"; or Dr. Marion Elizabeth Blake, Converse College, scrutinizing "the Republican and Augustan pavements of Italy"; or Dr. Philip Franklin of Massachusetts Institute of Technology going to Germany and Switzerland to ponder "integral equations, orthogonal functions and their relation to almost periodic function...
Concerning this amazing character, Philip Guedalla has apparently learned all that a brilliant bio-romancer can learn. U. S. readers will not object if Author Guedalla's treatment of political problems is so trifling as to make him appear lazy when he is not facetious...
...PALMERSTON-Philip Guedalla-Putnam...