Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Mr. Curtis went to see Secretary Stimson about Mrs. Gann. Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador and dean of the diplomatic corps, went to see Secretary Stimsori about Mrs. Gann. Secretary Stimson went to see President Hoover about Mrs. Gann. Secretary Stim son saw newsgatherers about Mrs. Gann. To them he gave correspondence which showed what a Statesman he really was - correspondence which passed the whole question of Mrs. Gann's precedence back to the diplomatic corps...
RABELAIS-Anatole France-Holt ($5). THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS, AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND His SON PANTA-GRUEL-trans, from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Le Motteux. In one volume.-Simon & Schuster ($3.50). On the banks of the Loire between Meung and Orleans there is a bubbling well by which "the master" sat, and a stone table on which he is said to have written. Add a weeping willow tree, and the late great Anatole France has made a Chinese sage of Rabelais-scholarly, ruminative, hardly Rabelaisian. France sought to unroll this innocuous picture before Argentine audiences...
...Consisting mainly of the works of young Celts, they did not include works of two famed Irishmen, Sir William Orpen and Sir John Lavery...
...estate was appraised by New York State at $19,747,687, of which $17,305,594 went to the Metropolitan. ¶Last week Justice William Harman Black of the New York State Supreme Court refused the motion of defense counsel to dismiss the $500,000 damage suit brought against Sir Joseph Duveen, international art dealer, by Mrs. Harry J. Hahn of Kansas City (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.). Another trial may now be begun upon the motion of either party...
From India to Canada came swart, white-bearded Sir Rabindranath Tagore. From London came the British Broadcasting Co.'s Education Director J. C. Stobart. From-Czechoslovakia came interpreters of the famed-"Sokol movement" for national physical education. Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan sent representatives. So did Australia and New Zealand. No U. S. educators were officially present, although two were invited from the Adult Education Association; but their absence in no way diminished the grand manner or the importance of the meeting last week in Victoria and Vancouver of the Canadian National Council of Education...