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...Author. The fame of Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell will hardly be increased if he becomes third Earl Russell (he is heir presumptive). Philosopher, mathematician, he is great & good friend to Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, with whom he wrote Principia Mathematica, incomprehensible to laymen, to mathematicians a delight. During the War Russell's pacifist activities in the No Conscription Fellowship cost him his Cambridge lectureship, £100 fine, six months in prison. Twice married, he has two children (by his second wife), lives in Cornwall, where he conducts a school for children on his own educational principles. Clean-shaven...
...Francisco last week shivers of delight scooted up and down many a small spine. In open-mouthed wonder children watched snowy-white angels float down from the sky; an old witch ride madly astride her broomstick, pausing only to tickle the nose of a raggedy boy waiting to be fattened and baked into gingerbread. The climax came when his yellow-haired sister saved him with the wave of a magic juniper-branch and a hocus-pocus formula, when together they pushed the witch into the oven stoked for them. For children no moment of the performance approaches this supreme...
...from the plenitude of investment capital, he set the interest rate at 2⅜ %-a record low. In June 1929, he had had to pay as high as 5⅛% for his public borrowings. The previous record low rate was 2¾|% in 1924. To Secretary Mellon's delight, the Treasury offering was oversubscribed almost four times...
Same evening British colonists were horrified to hear the blare of a German band from the waterfront, to see German sailors replete in brass buttoned pea-jackets, with fluttering ribbons hanging down their backs, goose-stepping past the Consul while native boys grinned in delight. German settlers shouted Hoch! again. Horror soon changed to fury when they read a full translation of Consul Speiser's speech...
...missions in Africa and India." Edward of Wales played cautious baccarat at Le Touquet for 10,000 francs a stake. His opponent was Mrs. James Cresson Parrish, Manhattan socialite. Soon she won 250,000 francs (about $10,000) from him, let him win it back. He beamed his delight...