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Dates: during 1920-1929
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House of Lords. A bill introduced in the Commons by Frank Briant, Liberal Member for Lambeth, would enable peeresses in their own right to sit in the House of Lords. Members of all parties, including the well-advertised Lady Astor, support the measure. The bill would affect 24 British peeresses, including the Duchess of Fife, the Countesses of Cromartie, Loudoun and Seafield, Countess Roberts, and Viscountesses Wolseley and Rhondda...
...Yugo-Slavs what the sword and pen of the swashbuckling poet had made the great national ambitioin of the Italians, went the Order of the Annunziata, the highest honor that can be given by the Italian Crown. There are only seven in the order; the recipient is entitled to sit in the Royal presence and to .call the Sovereign "Cousin...
...most effervescent of women. When I saw her the other day she was busily planning to take up again her favorite work of "play-doctoring" which she did for years. Said she: "Just because I can't move about is no reason why I can't sit still and rehearse a play!" She accused me of being too young to remember her play The Melting of Molly! which, of course, was absurd; for I remember that delightful whimsical tale well. She laughed and joked, received several other callers gayly, disposed of the affairs of the world...
Tickets may be procured at Leavitt and Peirce's, and at the Harvard Cooperative Society. A limited number of reserved seats will be reserved for people desiring to sit as near to the platform as possible. These may be secured on application to the head usher at Sanders Theatre tonight...
Professor R. A. Daly '93 in speaking of the "Ocean" showed startling figures dealing with the pressure it exerts upon itself. "If the ocean were not compressible," he says, "sea level would be 200 feet higher than it is now. It is to this fact, than the ocean can sit upon itself, so to speak, that we owe our present safety...