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...more than a mind that is purely feminine. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly." Tall, gaunt, haunted-looking Virginia Woolf lives quietly with her husband, divides her time between long weekends in a low-lying Sussex cottage (where she does most of her work) and a tall house in London. She rarely makes a public appearance. She has no children. Careless of her clothes, her face, her greying hair, at 55 she is the picture of a sensitive, cloistered literary woman. Jealous juniors derisively style...
...Between the years 1912 and 1914 Mr. Charles Dawson found in a stratum of gravel at Piltdown Sussex, fragments of a fossilized skull and jaw which were reconstructed by Sir Arthur Smith Woodward as Eoanthropus, the famed man of Piltdown. Some scholars refused to believe at first that a skull so human could be associated with a jaw so apelike, but present-day consensus is that the fragments actually belonged to one individual. Most anthropologists-notably excepting Sir Arthur Keith-hold that the Piltdown man, like the Pekin man and the Java apeman, were offshoot types which died...
...heavyset, quietly dressed man of 55 who smokes Players cigarets from a silver case and has false teeth, Mr. Price works in his South Kensington laboratory every week day until 5 o'clock unless he is"out on a case," commutes to his home in Sussex 50 mi. out of London. Last week Mr. Price...
...from Jerusalem last week. A crisis of the most extreme urgency, in the opinion of the British residency in Palestine, was emerging from the Arab General Strike now in its twenty-first week. Abruptly 15,000 British troops, already drawn up in mock battle array for war games in Sussex, were piled aboard trains, rushed to Aldershot where overseas war equipment was issued to them, and shown to transports for Palestine. One battalion each of the King's Coldstream and Scots Guards was left in Britain but the rest of the First Division was headed for Palestine...
From Chichester the Bishop calls To Sussex by the sea For folk to build the Church's walls, In love and loyalty...