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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably the greatest Prime Minister in our history was Sir Wilfrid Laurier, than whom no finer example of British-French-Canadianism is extant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Canadian Prime Ministers since 1867 only French Canadian was Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1896 to 1911). British to the core, he spoke French with an English accent, English with a French accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Martina and Sylvina Lawrence, twin daughters of an English diplomat (Wilfrid Lawson), can be told apart only when they part their hair on different sides. Within, frivolous, selfish Sylvina and gentle Martina are as different as black & white. When Martina falls in love with a young Englishman (Michael Redgrave) whom she encounters on an alp, Sylvina steps in, nabs him. A sailing spill drowns Sylvina, leaves Martina in possession of her sister's wedding ring, husband, lover, and life-and Actress Bergner with a psychological problem worthy of her steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...romantic remark her husband ever heard her make: "Let's go to England and live under thatch." Frost sold his farm and the family sailed for England in September 1912. There, in a thatched cottage in Beaconsfield, he began to associate with literary professionals (Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, Wilfrid Gibson, Edward Thomas). In England he published his first book of poems, A Boy's Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Muse | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Oklahoma. Rolf N. B. Haugen, University of Minnesota. Everett R. Johnson, Rockfeller Institute. Luna B. Leopold 1G, Willard D. Lewis '35, John Lydenberg 2G. Kenneth MacLeish '38, John K. Musgrave Jr. 2G, John F. Ohl, G.Ed., Charles E. Passage 1G. Charles M. Rick Jr. 1G, Rochester R. Roby, Wilfrid S. Sellars 1G, Reuben E. Slesinger, University of Pittsburgh. Arthur Szathmary 1G, Theodore H. White '38 Francis J. Whitfield, '37 Harold Winkler, University of Chicago. Robert A. Winters 1G, Gilbert F. Woods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 115 Men Get $63,350 Worth of '38-'39 Graduate Scholarships | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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