Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lovers of the madrigal will take particular delight in a number of the first editions of the English composers William Byrd, Thomas Morley, Thomas Watson, and John Amner. In addition to Byrd's first editions are shown a set of four part-song manuscripts of his madrigals...
...Germany appeals for foreign missions are not encouraged. The Nazi Government has little sympathy with evangelical Christianity, none at all with enterprises which take money out of the Reich. Last week it became known that in South Africa, consequently, German missionaries go after customers as well as converts...
Oddest fact about Beaverbrook as a publisher is the amount of kidding and criticism the Beaver can take from the people who work for him. Evelyn Waugh. a writer of fantastic novels (Decline And Fall, Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust) was once an Evening Standard reporter. He has repeatedly and maliciously caricatured Beaverbrook as Lord Monomark or Lord Copper of the Daily Excess...
...Empire. On Nov. 20, 1936, Lord Beaverbrook arrived in Manhattan on a trip that was scheduled to take him to Arizona for his asthma. Why, asked ship newsmen, were Beaverbrook's papers sitting on the Edward-Mrs. Simpson story? "Who? Me?" said the Beaver. "I know nothing about Mrs. Simpson." A few hours later he turned around and went back to London, impishly letting it be known that the sea voyage had so benefited him that he might just continue to shuttle back & forth across the Atlantic...
They are not required to take exams and are ineligible for any sort of degree...