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...colorful. However, although I recall his leaving his Shakspere* class in the manner you describe, I do not recall his leaving the Chaucer class that way. The former group met in a good sized lecture hall at the top of a narrow flight of stairs so that a prompt exit was needed to avoid jostling and a delayed departure. The latter group, smaller and more select, being largely composed of graduate students, met in an ordinary classroom and was treated with somewhat less contempt...
...noblesse oblige at the Fair last week, Edward VIII's most widely reported act was his prompt reaction to a red rose thrown at his feet by a girl. Turning to Sir Reginald Henry Seymour, Equerry to His Majesty, the King said, "Pick up that flower and save...
...Britain of a legal opinion, is unrivaled. This was shown in 1926 when a speech by Sir John Simon giving his opinion that the leaders of Britain's General Strike were liable to suit for heavy damages so scared them as to become a major factor in their prompt decision to call the Strike off. Last week Sir John Simon betook himself to a microphone connected with a Continental hook-up and made a speech in French. "In years gone by the Kings of England exercised great personal power," Sir John told anxious Frenchmen. "One of our writers...
Accordingly, the proposition was submitted secretly to the Allies, got a prompt, flat rejection from Foreign Secretary Grey. Aggrieved, Secretary Lansing wrote to the President: "It seems to me that the British Government expected us to denounce submarine warfare as inhuman and to deny the right to use submarines in at tacking commercial vessels; and that these statements by Sir Edward Grey evidence his great disappointment that we have failed to be the instrument to save Britishcommerce from attack by Germany. . . ." By April, Allied rejection of the U. S. proposal was unanimous and had been docilely accepted by Secretary Lansing...
...prima donnas. She had a proud, heroic type of beauty, a graceful swinging stride, beautifully molded arms which seemed to shape all the music she sang. Her voice was uneven but it was always deeply personal. And as a musician she was so sure that she was able to prompt any one who sang on the stage with her. Her impersonations seemed completely spontaneous, but they were all carefully considered before she gave them their seething, transfigured quality. As Tosca she was so tigerish that every Scarpia who sang with her dreaded the moment when she would spring...