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...Suffolk to visit his good Fabian friends, Sidney and Beatrice Webb. The other guest was an idealistic Irish girl named Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend: she came from County Cork; her father was a millionaire. After the holiday Shaw wrote his beloved correspondent, Actress Ellen Terry: "I am going to refresh my heart by falling in love with her. I love falling in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mrs. Shaw's Profession | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...Long Beach, Calif., where he founded his famed pension movement nine years ago, Dr. Francis E. Townsend returned last week to rally his followers-and at the fountainhead to try to refresh his own optimism. For Townsendism, thanks to the thousands of jobs that war has opened to oldsters, had fallen on discouraging times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Dr. Townsend's Evil Days | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...house Willkie said the right thing: "One of the difficulties facing me is that one falls so much in love with the Chinese people that it is difficult to form a critical and fact-finding judgment." According to Chinese custom, he was given a hot towel with which to refresh his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Foreign News, Oct. 12, 1942 | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

Advanced students and beginners will work together in single studies instead of the customary method of dividing students into classes corresponding to their degree of training, Hudnut explained. It is expected that beginning students will learn from advanced students, and the advanced students will refresh their knowledge through teaching the others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESIGN SCHOOL TO ADOPT STUDIO IDEA | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

Almost every episode of betrayal sent him scurrying into brief exile in France. In 1911 he visited Paris "for study." In 1926 he went there "for his health." In 1927 he went "to refresh himself." In 1935, after a would-be assassin had winged him, he went "to recuperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Tale of a Turncoat | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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