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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Well, that is very frank-now I understand it!" gasped Sir Boyd Merriman, President of the Court, and instead of refusing to dismiss the intervention he promptly dismissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Knob-Head | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...Ethiopia, united too in refusing to stomach what they call the "British insult" de livered when George VI invited Haile Selassie to send a native delegation "to represent the Ethiopian Emperor at the Coronation." This hot quarrel last week made sure of a snub in Rome for British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond when he called to ask the Italian Foreign Office whether further Italian troops were being landed in Spain through the British fleet now assigned to blockade its west coast. Attitude of Count Ciano, the Italian For eign Minister and son-in-law of Il Duce, was that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Newsiest Dictator | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...gown Sir Boyd Merriman,* presiding in Court last week, fussed about, patiently searching for some peccadillo or infraction. A small one would testify to his conscientiousness and not impede dismissal of the intervention. Suddenly he fastened upon the fact that Mrs. Simpson, although she had a flat in London, got her decree nisi out at rural Ipswich. Last week the judge badgered her Empire-famed and highly paid counsel, Norman Birkett, K. C., upon this point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Knob-Head | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...whiskers will come to Winthrop in approved House drama style on April 22 and 23, when members of the House will stage "East Lynne." The piteous Lady Isabel, who compromises herself and comes to a tragic end, is played by Arthur R. Borden, Jr. '39, while the lecherous villain, Sir Francis Levison, is A. James Lehman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 3/25/1937 | See Source »

...that means for the open road, and its mood was the mood of its fair inhabitants. And it frankly gave in to claustrophobia and wouldn't turn. So the hilarious females, full of the joie de vivre, summoned a passing Harvard lad to extricate them from their troubles. Sir Lancelot obliged like a true knight, but, the troubles over, he was heard by the damsels no longer in distress to drop the remark "Just Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/25/1937 | See Source »

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