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...Empire Premiers in England for the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) journeyed to Cardington, Bedfordshire, last week and were shown the giant air liners R-100 and R-101 now building under a shroud of mystery for the London-Cairo-Bombay air service scheduled to open next year (TIME...
...with the Consecration of the House overture, played too the early Symphony in C. In Chicago Frederick Stock led the symphony there in the first of a series of consecrated programs-played the first two symphonies and the triple concerto. In Vienna a monument was completed and the canvas shroud stripped off with fitting ceremony. In Manhattan at the Metropolitan Opera House the Society of the Friends of Music gave for its first concert of the season, the Missa Solemnis...
Wrapped within a shroud...
...share is even more questionable. Nations have too often been decoyed into war by misunderstanding when a correctly informed public opinion might have saved the day. Bismark's meddling with the Eme telegram and similar incidents are already sufficiently notorious. Yet diplomacy still continues to wrap itself in the shroud of secrecy which it acquired in the poison dagger atmosphere of the renaissance. But despite its occasional Machiavellian characteristics, state craft, unlike necromancy, does not properly belong to the black arts, and should, therefore, be able to withstand the light...
...landing in Ireland and directing a revolt, to be supported by smuggled German arms. To Sir Roger Casement, strange, brilliant, unbalanced adventurer, it seemed that his chances, even of life, were slim enough. Jauntily he called back toward the U-719, "I need nothing, Herr Kapitan, except my shroud...