Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have seen how the country has prospered under my reign these past years. You have seen the way the jurisdiction of England has passed into my hands until all that is left outside are the courts of the Church. If we are to be happy, these too, must be given up to me. But it can not be while Thomas a Becket maintains the last word in this kingdom. Jealous of the power he has usurped, he will not step aside...
...story has it that one night three long years ago, this intelligent bird, it may be seen reading a CRIMSON, in the picture above, just vanished. Lampy was aroused, he kidnapped an undergraduate, he raided the Bones Club at Yale, but all in vain, the Ibis was still at large...
This was an evidence of industry-mindedness on the part of Ambassador Davies which Soviet officials have seen in no previous envoy to their Union. He is in fact the first to make even a quick inspection tour of an important section of Red Industry. Typical of 99% of the Moscow diplomatic corps are the British who carry on with a dimly-lit Embassy front hall in which concealed lamps floodlight full-length oil paintings of King George V & Queen Mary in the most elaborate of royal robes. Nobody in the British Embassy sees any more than he can help...
That Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin have never seen cause to suppress Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin or even excessively bourgeois Madame Butterfly goes far to explain how Soviet Russia is now managing to like supercapitalistic Mr. & Mrs. Davies and support quietly a growing bureaucracy of Babbitt Bolsheviks...
Although not one of the best known modern Germans, Kleinschmidt will be familiar to those who have seen his exhibition of German art in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Born in Pomerania in 1883, Paul Kleinschmidt has studied in Munich and Berlin. His great interest in Van Gogh took him to Southern France where he painted many scenes that his predecessor had done. The paintings of the "Sunflower" and the "Arles Bridge," in the exhibition show this admiration for Van Gogh...