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Claiming that "British democracy will be the rock on which the future of Western Europe will be built," Lord Inverchapel, British Ambassador to the United States, told a New Lecture Hall audience last night that democracy "is doomed to a lingering and dreadful twilight" unless unity there is achieved.
every publication "says" something about the world. The Manchester Guardian has a personality, a tone, that says: "People are decent; if they would only realize that and trust each other, we should get along better." The accents of the New York Daily News say: "Look out, bud; they're...
The English translation that went over so well in "Idomoneo" seemed to bog down in "Giovanni." Recitatives like "What dreadful thing has happened" smacked unfortunately of Gilbert and Sullivan, and the Catalogue Aria collapsed. Giovanni's drinking song was taken at half speed, evidently to fit either the language or...
The Harmless Gentleman. The jury found against him. Said Mr. Justice Swift: "I have been over 40 years engaged in the administration of the law [but] I have never heard such dreadful, horrible, blasphemous and abominable stuff. . . ."
With some pain, the Duke remembered a childhood nurse who took him downstairs at teatime to see his parents, the future George V and Mary. "Before taking me into the drawing room, this dreadful 'Nanny' would pinch and twist my arm-why, no one knew, unless it was...