Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning meeting, at which W. F. Downey, headmaster of the English High School of Boston, will preside, Professor C. F. Taeusch of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration will discuss "Ethics and Business". A. V. Shaw of the firm of Shaw, Loomis, and Sayles, Investment Counsel, will speak on "The Teacher's Personal Investment Problem." At the close of the second address, there will be an opportunity for discussion of both these papers...
Last week, while George V, dreadfully thin and pale, lay watching white fingers of frost on his window pane at Bognor. Edward of Wales, acting for the King-Emperor, conducted his first state levee...
...Berlin by a heartless auctioneer was a letter written by the Queen-Empress when she was just Princess Mary of Teck. It was written in 1893, shortly after the death of her first fiance, the Duke of Clarence, and her engagement to his younger brother, the present George V. "The last year has been such a terribly sad one for me," wrote the 26-year-old princess. "It almost seems strange that any kind of happiness could come into my life again. But Georgie is such a dear. The great sorrow we shared has made our bond a union that...
Doubtless one or more of the doctors who saved the life of George V will eventually be honored-but not this time. The only doctor to receive a peerage last week is Sir Berkeley Moynihan, president of the Royal College of Surgeons. A coincidence of the week was that three days before the honors list was published, Sir Berkeley achieved terrific notoriety and put his name in screaming headlines by lecturing on Medicine and War before the London Authors' club. On his word of honor...
...husband of Mrs. Shaw recently sold to an English review a cowardly attack on the physicians of George V. He insinuated that they did not employ a certain mode of treatment "because the inventor was both an American and a Jew." His courage was such that his insinuations-although unquestionably directed against the royal physicians-were cast in the form of an allegory and entitled An Improbable Fantasy...