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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend of the divorced Mrs. Spencer (now better known as Mrs. Wallis Simpson). Three years ago he married pretty Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden of Chicago. Appointed to the important post of Secretary General of the Buenos Aires conference, Señor Espil has for the first time taken his twice-divorced wife home to introduce her to the frigid salons of Argentina's strictly Catholic high society...
...number of notable defects in this course reaches an all-time high. Laboratory sessions constantly extend over the three-hour period. Quizzes given both in labs and in section meetings are long and unnecessarily frequent. The twice-weekly check-up brings the course down to prep-school level. Section meetings held once a week consist of a twenty minute quiz and a half-hour discussion. Poorly conducted as a rule, they are dull and profitless...
Only Gilbert and Sullivan could do justice to England's royal marry-go-round. In the center ring the emperor of one sixth of the world kneels before a twice-divorced charmer from the southland, while on either side the lords temporal and spiritual beat their breasts in dismay, the American press makes the cables blush, and there is distinct teeth gnashing in the orchestra pit. Last week the Communist Party investigated reports that Mrs. Simpson was pro-fascist, but the situation is losing its farcical nature, and certain events show that England's ruling class is profoundly disturbed...
...their world-wide rovings, their climbs up high mountains and descents into the deep earth. Last week a successful mining engineer now little more than half Hammond's age offered a volume of reminiscence as informal as Hammond's was ponderous, less than half as long and twice as funny, and dealing with events that were as inconsequential as those that Hammond recorded were important. Saying he "would not be so brash'' as to attempt an autobiography, John Gordon Baragwanath gives an "autobiographical minimum" that is so interesting readers are likely to regret...
...effective demolition of the school of so-called "fine printing" Mr. Morison fulminates so beautifully against tricky type-fonts, odd proportions of type and page, misplaced color and the rough edges of handmade paper that it is reasonable to assume any journeyman reader of his remarks will think twice before committing these sins...