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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have just returned from Europe (including Biarritz, Paris and London), and I know what I am talking about. The Prince is constantly allowing himself to be seen with persons such as -- -- and -- -- whom he even invited to private suppers at Biarritz. In a word, perhaps the most respectable woman of his own choosing with whom the Prince "plays around...
Thou art the man. "Colonel House asked me if I would consider going into the Cabinet. I did not take the inquiry very seriously. . . [Later] My commission had been signed, but up to that moment I had no direct word from the President, oral or written, that I was to be the Secretary of Agriculture...
...Grand Lama of Tibet, most fundamental of Fundamentalists, has bowed to Science. His mystery palace, the Potala, at Lhasa, now flashes with electricity, according to epochal word just received. Age after age, the grand Lama's seclusion has been a byword to awe. Lhasa, the Forbidden City-what European had seen it? A few 18th Century Capuchin friars; persistent but mostly unsuccessful 19th Century explorers. Not until 1904, under armed expedition of Col. Francis E. Younghusband, was there any adequate description. Since then things have moved faster in the Buddhist Mecca...
...house for having loved the wrong girl, for having composed popular songs. The parent then falls in love with the girl himself, proving that the hero was right. On Fay Bainter's arch pouting and ogling rests the burden of entertaining the audience through three word-puffed acts. The burden is too great, even though shared by Mr. McRae, famed fascinator...
...much sleep longing to correct possible false impressions. Huxley described "a marvelous dumb sagacity about him ... he gets to truth by ways as dark as those of the Heathen Chinee." Eternally openminded, he was frank before criticism, glad to acknowledge error, seldom condemned another's views by any word stronger than...