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...English religious poet is bound in heavy green leather with designs traced in gold. In the center of the outer cover is a silver medallion. The following is a complete list of the authors on exhibition: John Cleveland, Abraham Cowley, Thomas Stanley, Sir John Suckling, Sir John Taylor, George Wither, Frances Quarles, Henry Vaughan, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, John Davies John Taylor, the Water-Poet, Giles Fletcher the Younger, Sir William Davenant, James Harrington, Richard Crashaw, Sir John Denham, Francis Hubert, Robert Anton, Thomas Nabbes, George Buck, John Hepwith, Samuel Rewlands, Nicholas Hooker, Alex Rosse, Thomas Carew, Robert Stapleton, Joseph...
Germany at Armistice Time. "Our men are sallow, anemic, enfeebled; our weary women's skin is loose and wrinkled, like the leather of unlubricated machinery belting. The children, brought up without milk, wither away. . . . Thus we have lived for years...
...also written a pamphlet against cigaret smoking and a discourse on why English should be a universal language. He collects American antiques. He has built a golf course for his employes and plays on it. He has opinions on politics; opinions and a hand in business. Age (62) cannot wither his infinite variety. He is always riding in many vehicles...
...opening of College each year sees a new group of experiments planted, the great majority of which never blossom but wither and die before the succeeding Fall rolls around Some few annually mature and become with time lusty and revered institutions of the University...
Philip Snowden, the "ascetic, intellectual type of burning enthusiast," "a frail figure of a man who walks with a stick,"- "the man with a hatchet face and small burning eyes sunk deep beneath a projecting brow," the man whose caustic sarcasm has caused his opponents to wither, was known to be a Socialist. Only last Summer he introduced a bill to suppress the capitalist system (TIME, July 23). Small wonder, then, that Socialism was the thought uppermost in the minds of the assembled M.P.'s when Philip Snowden appeared on the Treasury Bench...