Word: man
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...four great things in life that are essential to happiness, one of the most vitally important is that a man have some leisure, and that he know how to use it," said Viscount Sir Edward Grey, British Ambassador to the United States, last evening before the largest audience that has crowded the Living Room of the Union this year. The speech, which was one of the three to he delivered in the United States by Lord Grey this year, was on the subject of "Recreation." After being introduced by President Lowell, Lord Grey first told of the great interest...
After telling something of his passion for games and sports, especially for tennis and salmon and trout fishing, he spoke of books, which he characterized as "the greatest of all recreations, for without the power of reading no man can be independent...
Viscount Grey told of a walk he took with Mr. Roosevelt through the wild country of Hampshire so that the great American could study the songs of the English birds, and of the profound impression that he received of Roosevelt, not only as a great man of action, but as a man of knowledge...
...Poet' has never been staged, having but recently been written, and the Dramatic Club has, therefore, the honor of being its first producers. The scene of this sketch is laid in modern London, and the play contains but three characters, Prattle, an empty-headed and matter-of-fact man about town; De Reves, a poet and dreamer; and Fame, an allegorical figure...
Predictions by the scientist Einstein, which have recently been partially confirmed by astronomers, have caused tremendous interest in scientific circles. Although the new theory is in itself practically inexplicable to the average man, the main consequences of it are simple enough for the layman to understand...