Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stillman Infirmary was again taxed to capacity as an epidemic of colds swept through the University sending 41 men to bed. This is almost twice the average number of men usually in the Infirmary...
...from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m., the King, restless and flushed with anger, tells Lord Beaverbrook, hastily summoned from a proposed trip to Arizona, of his resentment at Prime Minister Baldwin's summoning of the Cabinet to interfere in His Majesty's proposed marriage to twice-divorced Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 7). A break obviously is near in the news censorship self-imposed by the British Newspaper Proprietors' Association. Vehemently, Edward VIII urges his right to marry Mrs. Simpson upon Publisher Beaverbrook whose fingers remain, for the moment, crossed, though later his Daily Express goes...
...duty of dubbing an Indian politician knight (name: Ramaswami Srinivasa Sarma), and is icily angry when perspiring Mr. Baldwin rushes in, soon rushes off hatless again to consult the Cabinet, rushes back and confronts Edward VIII in their angriest scene thus far. The Prime Minister applies to a twice-divorced woman the fighting words "damaged goods." "Sir," ultimatums Mr. Baldwin, "there is no question that Parliament and the Cabinet as well will be in complete agreement on preferring your abdication to your marriage to Mrs. Simpson." Edward VIII takes this as an attempt to depose him in the guise...
Says one of these Gentlemen in substance: "Is it even necessary that there be a Coronation?* If there is none, the Archbishop of Canterbury's conjectured refusal on moral ground to officiate at the Coronation of one known to contemplate marriage with a twice-divorced woman evaporates...
...never goes to bed before 3 a. m., sleeps with a black blindfold, considers it fun to open charge accounts. She writes personal letters on a typewriter, has had lunch twice with George Bernard Shaw, is of airplanes, taxis, trains, subways, refused to act with animals on the stage since a bulldog bit her in Seventeen...