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...Frank Pace is excellent presidential timber-well educated, fine background, superior administrative abilities. He has an interest in our Government, is an Anglo-Saxon, and approaches matters the way that type of person always does. Most important of all, he is a bang-up golfer...
Lady Emily (Emy to her family) was a bright-eyed matron married to a distinguished architect (designer of New Delhi, London's Cenotaph and Liverpool Cathedral). She belonged to a famed English family: grandfather was Statesman-Novelist Bulwer-Lytton (Harold, Last of the Saxon Kings, Rienzi, The Last Days of Pompeii), and her father, first Earl of Lytton, was Viceroy of India (1876-80). There came a day in 1910 when Emy, then 36, no longer knew what to do with herself. Every male reader with an underemployed female relative will feel his heart sink at the news that...
Harvard piously avoided hell and confined itself to teaching safe Anglo-Saxon literature and language, plus a few scattered courses in more modern English writings...
...damaged lifeboat, five men died of exhaustion and exposure during the next 54 hours. By the third morning the remaining five, living armpit-deep in water, were almost too weak to move. That afternoon, as if by magic, the great steel bow of the U.S. Isbrandtsen Co. freighter Saxon loomed almost directly over their heads, framed by a rainbow as a sudden rain squall cut into the sunlight. Minutes later, the five survivors, of whom the eldest was 24, were safe on board. A sixth, the only man left in the lifeboat that had once held 25, was picked...
That Cozzens fellow is certainly remarkable. Snob, introvert, hermit-all this, and a proud Anglo-Saxon blueblood too. Do you think poor greaseballs like me will ever be able to appreciate the genius of this...