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Every leading Briton seemed on the qui vive last week to thwart Benito Mussolini's candid designs on Ethiopia. Political fossils like bemonocled Nobel Peace Prizeman Sir Austen Chamberlain, shaggy-maned David Lloyd George, Tea-pot-Tempester Winston Churchill- and Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, who has lately collected 11,000,000 British straw votes for Peace, all hustled in to see Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare...
...following selections will be sung together with Wellesley: "Qui Tollis" and "Cum Sancto," from the "Bach B Minor Mass"; "May no rash intruder," from Handel's "Solomon"; and "The Coronation Scene," from Moussorgsky's "Boris...
That a Negroid nation should be menaced by spectacular Dictator Benito Mussolini highly excited the world's Negroes last week. Not only Harlem but every other darktown was on the qui vive at news from Rome that for three nights running II Duce had sat up secretly with His Grand Council, contriving who knew what against the African Majesty of cocoa-butter-colored Haile Selassie I (Power of Trinity), Emperor of Abyssinia and Conquering Lion of Judah, whose somewhat Jewish features support his boast of descent from Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Clarioned the Negro...
...Dawson's discussion of the elements in the whole prior development which culminated in that age is at once masterly and full. One would like, above all to linger over more of his statements than this: "The end of (Greek) science was not to do but to know: felix qui potuit rorum cognoscore causas. The reward of the scientist was to share the blessedness of the immortal gods who are eternally satisfied with the contemplation of the ordered course of the heavens and the vision of eternal law." As he points out this ideal was as incomprehensible to the mediaeval...
...telegram from Hitler's lieutenant, in which the impression was gained that there was still a possibility of his attending his class reunion. Yesterday, when he was asked whether the donation was an indication that he had given up all hopes of being able to attend, Hanfstaengl replied cryptically: "Qui vivra verra." (He who lives will...