Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Talkative all week was the Lord-in-Waiting whom King Edward fortnight ago sent to stand watch over Mrs. Simpson in Cannes, Lord Brownlow. Last week correspondents rather got to like his way of saying "Upon my word of honor, you may take it, Gentlemen" but when they pieced together such facts as there were, these would seldom or never fit what the Lord-in-Waiting had said. Brownlow's greatest feat was to go for a long ride with Mrs. Simpson, closely followed by correspondents, and alight to vow on his sacred honor as an English Lord...
...askance, protested when it began to expand beyond the Lawrence estate. They complained that students raced through town in fur coats and rolled socks, played the piano and sang until all hours. Sarah Lawrence girls no longer overrun Bronxville. They are now responsible to advisers or "dons," who watch their progress, give them permission to leave when they deserve holidays. When President Warren, stately, handsome daughter of the headmaster of Albany (N. Y.) Academy for boys, succeeded President Marion Coats in 1929, she put through a charter enabling the college to give a four-year course, grant A. B. degrees...
...Briggs, now 59, is not in the best of health, lives in Florida except in the summer, when he goes to Detroit on business and to watch the Tigers. Second in command at Briggs Mfg. Co. is William Patrick Brown, vice president, who was paid a $75,000 salary last year, $15,000 more than Mr. Briggs...
Several parents of the children also gathered in the parlor of the House to watch a program of entertainment that was arranged by James M. Mixter '40, Harold C. Palmer '40, and Peter E. Pratt...
...much as the work of the men in the studios. Some forming trees of fine copper wire as they look at scale drawings. The needles of the conifers and leaves of the deciduous trees are of sheet copper. Sore at heart that I am so empty-headed on nature. Watch the workmen attach the needles and leaves to a wire, first twisting each into boughs. Many single wires are twisted for the bare branches of other trees. Hardwood trees. One man making figures of wax for the big model; leaves them naked. Musculature must be correct before they...