Word: warmheartedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is Mr. Chamberlain (he has no nickname and few close friends) who dominates Britain's Conservative Party by force of character and purpose. Bumbling old Stanley Baldwin, nominal Party Leader, has almost ceased to count. Since the Conservatives have an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons it...
Harold F. Ritchie was 52 when he died. Appendicitis was the immediate cause, but it was really overwork that did it. He talked day and night, sat up till 4 a. m. if he could get a buyer to listen to him, never walked, played golf, or took any form...
DANIEL WEBSTER-Claude M. Fuess- Little, Brown ($10).† If a decent interval has interposed between you and your schooldays, you probably think of Daniel Webster as a forbidding old party who invented U. S. oratory and was somehow not elected President. Perhaps you may have the idea he wrote...
Anton Chekhov, prince of Russian short-story writers, prince of Russian playwrights, wrote one play that has waited until now to be translated into English. Without the lucid depths, the sparkling shallows, of his masterpiece The Cherry Orchard, That Worthless Fellow Platonov obviously wells up from the same source. No...