Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With British statesmen on holiday, dispatches from London last week were nonetheless rich in British character...
...felt that he could not have endured existence had it not been for Homer. Venerated by the country at large, hated by his own party, he fought the aristocrats of Boston when their selfish claims ran counter to the national welfare, was one of the greatest of living statesmen who was content to be known as one of the most modest poets the country had produced. An actor's letter asking his advice on Othello gave him more pleasure than all his political honors. And Harvard was educating such youngsters as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, Oliver Holmes, John...
Most royalist and loyalist of British Dominions statesmen is handsome, dynamic and air-minded Stanley Melbourne Bruce, onetime Premier of Australia and now the High Commissioner in London of the Dominion's Cabinet. At Bristol last week an English audience cheered Mr. Bruce to the echo when he declared that the Dominions ought to pay more than they do now of the terrific bills the Mother Country is running up for armaments. "You can rely," cried Orator Bruce, "that there will be recognition in Australia that they have got to make their contribution...
...people, a period, a place. Behind the extraordinary news in the papers, the decisive events described by historians, lies a mass of anonymous, miscellaneous human happenings, comprising the routine stuff of daily living. This is private history and, though it rarely gets into public history, it outweighs soldiers and statesmen, battles and booms, in the final balance of time...
Laura's mother taught the girl that the two most important things in life were to paint and to be independent. Laura tried to draw from early childhood. Sent to her aunt's in St. Quentin, she copied portraits in the illustrated magazines of French generals and statesmen. Back in Nottingham at the Art School, she was barred from life classes because they were open only to men, was put to drawing from plaster casts. The local burghers invariably called her worst pictures masterpieces, tried to get her to do their portraits. Self-supporting in Nottingham, she gave...