Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dawson of Penn," a frock-coated name, a faintly snobbish name, precisely the right name for the King's Physician in Ordinary ?so thought many a U. S. citizen last year when George V lay near Death and the sun never set on fresh bulletins signed "Dawson of Penn" (TIME...
Last week, on the first anniversary of the day George V fell ill, the Royal Society of Medicine celebrated with a banquet. The Prime Minister of Great Britain was there to tell a little story in his warm Scotch way. Baron Dawson proposed His Majesty's health, adding in impeccable bedside tones: "Tonight is a suitable moment to state that the King in his recovery goes on from strength to strength...
...Catholic v. Atheist. Ferdinand Foch and Georges Clemenceau: Devout Catholic and fiery Atheist. They had to clash. They could win the War without coming to an actual break, but not the Peace. Which was right? Foch will always get his due as Conqueror. Hear Clemenceau: "We disagreed entirely on the question of the Franco-German frontier. The Marshal wanted me to annex the Rhineland, and wrote me so. I did not want to have a new Alsace-Lorraine that would send protesting deputies to the French Chamber, as Alsatian deputies were sent to the Reichstag after 1871. So Woodrow Wilson...
...appendix out in Chicago. Mrs. Theodore Hoover, sister-in-law of President Hoover, had her appendix out in Palo Alto, Calif. Crown Prince Christian Frederik of Denmark, visiting London, had an abscess in his throat lanced, was unable to go to Sandringham to see his second cousins George V & Queen Mary. Col. & Mrs, Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Arizona air-explorations were told of in the December World's Work (non- fiction monthly) by one Edward Moffat Weyer Jr. The story: When the Weyer archaeological party was isolated in an Arizona canyon by floods last July, a plane droned...
...program of the quartet will be as follows: I Rondo F. Couperin Arranged for the Aguilar Quartet by Joaquin Nin Sonata in D (XVIII Century) Mateo Albeuiz Granada Sevilla From "Suite Espagnole" Isaac Albeuiz II Serenade (K. V. 525) W. A. Mozart March: Allegro Romance: Andante Minuet: Allegretto Rondo: Allegro III Danza de la Pastora (Dance of the Shepherdess) E. Halffter Arranged for the Aguilar Quartet by the Composer La Oracion del Torero, (The Toreador's Prayer) J. Turina Recitado del Pascador (The Fisherman's Narrative) M. de. Falls Arranged for the Aguilar Quartet by the Composer De Murcia Joaquin...