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Gavin's dissertation was titled "This Bright Red Flower: A Critical Discussion of the Stories of Katherine Mansfield." Woodring wrote on "William and Mary Howitt: An Essay on Fame," while Brown discussed "Law in the India of Sir William Jones: A Starting Point for the English Historical School of Jurisprudence...
...Greek Orthodox Church calendar it was Good Friday, and Athens mourned the death of Christ. Flags were at half mast and the cathedral was draped in black. Behind Christ's flower-decked bier, members of the Greek government formed a procession which slowly wound through streets lined with spectators holding lighted candles. In the procession snowy-haired, handsome Minister of Justice Christos Ladas whispered to Athens Police Chief Angelos Evert: "Why the cordon of police around us? You do seem to take unnecessary precautions...
...London, a weekend that blossomed with flags and bunting reached full flower as George VI and Queen Elizabeth rode in state from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul's and back. The occasion: their silver wedding anniversary. The King and Queen (and Princess Margaret) rode in a gold and crimson coach behind the household cavalry and full-dress Guards, helmeted and plumed, on jet horses. After them came a coach with Elizabeth and Philip. Salutes were fired; cheering crowds jam-packed the sidewalks...
Since the first visitor crossed its threshold, more than 2,500,000 have wandered along the Huntington's magnificent cactus beds, orange groves and flower gardens, stopped to peer at the library's $50,000 Gutenberg Bible, and climbed the art gallery's marble stairs to take whispered popularity polls among the portraits. To San Marino each year come scholars to dig through treasures that range from the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript (best text of the Canterbury Tales) to the manuscript of Stevenson's Kidnapped...
...means of control, Nash used to impose geometrical patterns on his landscapes and still lifes, reshaping hills, trees and flower pots to suit his highly refined taste. The results looked arbitrarily prettified, at first, but in spite of that (or perhaps because of it) they sold...