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...moment of commitment. Her second seduction, by Charles Fox, was a helpless lady's surrender to the slyest of flattery; he wooed her "parts," her "unsuspected powers." ... So writes generous E. Barrington-L. Adams Beck, the double-barreled lady who has lately risen to fame as an expositor of Oriental mysticism (Splendour of Asia, The Ninth Vibration, etc.) and simultaneously as biographer of the Duchess of Fenton (The Chaste Diana), Lady Hamilton (The Divine Lady) and Poet Byron (Glorious Apollo). Her periods billow out like fussy, over-embroidered crinolines when she is in her role of sentimental raconteuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Heralds | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...Annie Besant, expositor of theosophy and its virtues, is so certain that the "world teacher" is soon coming to inhabit the body of her Hindu ward, Jiddu Krishnamurti, that she is taking the young man on tour. Last week they were in Paris. They are expected in the U. S. next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tour | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...gemlike sentence or paragraph." In like spirit of appreciation is the Greek epigram by E. K. Rand '94, in honor of Professor Palmer, given also in English verse by the versatile author. It was a happy thought to write in Greek of one who has been so true an expositor of the Greek spirit as has Professor Palmer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduates' Magazine Reviewed | 6/9/1911 | See Source »

...years he devoted his entire energies to the Harvard Law School. As a student he first came in touch with the case system under its noted originator, Professor Langdell. A year after his graduation from the School he was appointed Assistant Professor of Law and became the leading expositor of the case method, which has now invaded the whole country. In 1877 he received a full professorship and for the last 15 years of his life was Dean. His knowledge of all branches of the law was profound. He taught at various times at least half of the courses which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tributes to Dean Ames in Law Review | 3/5/1910 | See Source »

...Expositor is a purely theological magazine. Among the contributors to the first number are Rev. Professor T. K. Cheyne, D. D., of Oxford, and Rev. A. M. Fairbairn, D. D., LL. D., Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Notice. | 2/9/1897 | See Source »

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