Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today the palace where the Constitutions were declared is a moldering, overgrown ruin on private land near Salisbury. Dr. Tancred Borenius of London's University College, eminent Finnish-born scholar, diplomat and dendrologist, has been cutting away the ash trees, clearing out wagonloads of earth. Laid bare were parts of the great hall, two enormous kitchens, some state apartments, eating and drinking vessels from which irascible King Henry and his court feasted...
Back at his Manhattan law office, after a vacation in Pinehurst, N. C., was George Washington, Yaleman, onetime (1929-31) Rhodes scholar, great great great great grandnephew of the first President...
...point, for no sensible reason, a flapper bride (Heidi Vosseller) comes on wearing a turtleneck sweater, carrying an armful of lilies. Ushers in Prince Alberts appear with flowers in whiskey bottles. The mock marriage is immediately followed by the appearance of a large litter of Princeton children. The one scholar, a janitor with a Phi Beta Kappa key, attempts to sweep up the football hero only to be carried contemptuously offstage on the hero's rugged back. Anticlimax occurs when a Salvation Army lassie snatches off her spectacles, exhibits dancing tights and a rare pair of bright red garters...
Presenting his country's views on "Japan and Naval Disarmament," Tadayoshi Yamada, Japanese scholar of Political Science at Columbia University, will give a talk sponsored by the International Council on Monday at 7.45 o'clock in Lowell House Common Room...
...from London. Gathered there for the proverbial stage week-end are Rand Eldridge, noted Antarctic explorer and young lover of his hostess, his brother Hobart, an American capitalist interested in organizing Fascist youth movements, his doll-like wife, Phoebe, her daughter Joan, and her flance, Clendon Wyatt, a Rhodes scholar. Huge Willens, a German music critic, recently released from a concentration camp for having a Jewish great-grandmother, and Nikolai Jurin, a Russian emigre...