Word: rudyards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthdays. Rudyard Kipling, 66; Alfred Emanuel Smith, 58; Rudolph Spreckel, 60; Robert Joseph Cuddihy, 69; all race horses...
Elected. General Jan Christian Smuts, to be rector of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, defeating Scottish-born banking & shipping Tycoon James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, 466-286. The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell...
...children it is exciting fun. To the revelers it is an opportunity to repeat all the nice things Rudyard Kipling has been saying during the past 25 years about British Pluck. To the lovers it means discovery and ruin. To the porky pair, the male member of which shuffles about in that funniest of theatrical garments, the nightshirt, it is just the sort of nuisance one would expect the French to brew. To the novelist it is death...
...idea of such a collection was originally suggested a few years ago, to Mrs. F. V. Livingston, who is in charge of the Widener Room, by Mrs. Rudyard Kipling herself. At present the Harvard holdings consist of several hundred volumes, translated into as many as 22 languages...
...Rudyard Kipling's God of Things as They are might have beamed kindly approval last week as the Protestant Episcopal Church wound up its 50th triennial General Convention in Denver, Col. (TIME, Sept. 28, Oct. 5). Of the controversial subjects discussed, almost all had been settled by compromise between Liberal and Conservative groups. Exception : present-day politics and economics, which the Bishops denounced vigorously in a pastoral letter addressed to all the Church. It asked that the U. S. reduce its armaments, confer and cooperate with other nations, especially through "existing international agencies" for world peace. Said the letter...