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...Baltimore Bertram R. Yeatman planned to divorce his wife and marry a Mrs. Sophie Lowery. One morning Mrs. Sophie Lowery told him she was already married. Nevertheless she promised to meet him on a street-corner later in the day to discuss ways & means. Bertram R. Yeatman kept the appointment, waited on the street-corner for five hours. When Mrs. Sophie Lowery at last came, he shot her dead...
...Histories have previously been written with the object of exalting their authors. The object of this history is to console the reader. No other history does this." British Authors Sellar & Yeatman have written, in 1066 And All That, a more than consoling parody of English history, from Caesar's conquest of Britain to the end of all things, when, the U. S. being "clearly top nation . . . History came...
Example of Authors Sellar & Yeatman's consoling style: "Nelson was one of England's most naval officers, and despised weak commands. At one battle when he was told that his Admiral-in-Chief had ordered him to cease fire, he put the telephone under his blind arm and exclaimed in disgust: 'Kiss me, Hardy...
...sooner has the Right Reverend Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs, D. D., Lord Bishop of Worcester, England, and Senior Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, left than the announcement comes that another English scholar is to honor an American university with his presence. This time it is Dr. Stephen Langdon, of Oxford University, the noted Sumerian scholar, who has been appointed curator of the Babylonian section of the University of Pennsylvania museum. Dr. Langdon, whose appointment is for one year, expects to spend much of his time in translating and cataloging the many thousand Sumerian and Babylonian tablets in the museum...
...Right Reverend Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs, D. D., Lord Bishop of Worcester, England, and Senior Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, which John Harvard attended, will conduct the regular service in Appleton Chapel tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Officers of the University should enter at the north door and students at the south door, and students at the south door, unless accompanied by friends, when they should enter at the west door...