Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Embassy in Rio de Janeiro his chief. Ambassador Edwin Vernon Morgan, an oldster with 18 years' service in Brazil, was away from his post having fun on a Paris vacation. Secretary Washington, 29, Rhodes Scholar, was in charge. Only four years in the U. S. foreign service, he had been in Rio less than a twelvemonth. He did his conscientious best to keep the State Department in Washington posted on the ebb and flow of the civil war. It looked to him as if the rebels would be defeated by the Federal forces of President Washington Luis...
...Sidney and Beatrice Webb, foremost economists of the British Labor Party. Their telephone number is "Passfield 6," telegraphic address "Passfield," and he is the First Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner. Last week the wrath of millions of Jews was loosed upon this spindly-shanked bee-bellied, goat-bearded little scholar. Reason: potent Lord Passfield in his official capacity as Secretary of State for the Colonies had, just restated the Palestinian policy of His Majesty's Government in these terms...
Among firstnighters were Mary Louise ("Texas') Guinan and James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney. Scholar Tunney went behind between acts, offered Miss Cowl his "fe-li-ci-ta-tions" on a "per-fect-ly de-light-ful'' performance...
...years before the war college was the training ground of the gentleman and the scholar; it has become today the stamping ground for the masses. In an attempt to stem this deluge of mediocrity universities have stiffened their entrance requirements and bolstered up the standard of their curriculums. As a system of restriction this has been relatively successful and it has also lent weight and respect to a diploma, but it has rendered the task of the secondary school infinitely more difficult. As Frederick Winsor pointed out in the recently published minutes of the Harvard Alumni Association all boys must...
Four of the Oxford representatives are world-renowned scholars. Sir Henry A. Miers, M.A., D.Sc., Fellow of Magdalen College, is the chairman. He is professor of Mineralogy at Oxford. The director of the British Museum is also included in the group. He is Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, G.B.E., K.C.B., M.A., Hon. D. Litt., Hon. Fellow of New College and Magdalen College, and internationally known as an eminent classical scholar. The third man is Sir Edmund K. Chambers, K.B.E., M.A., Corpus Christi College, who is the author of several books on the history of the English theatre...