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Puzzled Bostonians saw congregating last week on the triangular trottoir before Trinity Church, which faces on Copley Square opposite the Public Library, a group of silent men and women-folk who had just darted warily across Boylston Street, who seemed to greet one another with ingenuous, unmasked pleasure, but who spoke no words. The attentive noted that these silent folk looked at each other with wide, quick-moving eyes which certainly observed everything, especially the queerly gesticulating fingers of their fellows, fingers that seemed to fly in fluid curves, hooks and angles, fingers that flipped with exact intention. Then...
Cables carried the news from Madras. The Theosophical Society had opened the celebration of its 50th anniversary. To greet the aged President Annie Besant was a sufficiently grand collection of 5,000 delegates of 37 nationalities. But there were no further details concerning the "reincarnation of Christ in the person of J. Krishnamurti...
...admire the work on your covers by such nationally known artists as Gordon Stevenson and S. J. Woolf, and always look forward eagerly to see what new face is to greet me from the newsstand. Is it not sufficient that I actually pay you more, buying TIME copy by copy, than if I subscribed? Should I not be entitled to the "right" possessed by the subscribers who pay you less...
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Another Story: "To greet this Cabinet [above], Asquith, Lloyd George and I went to Paris. . . . Asquith would not, Lloyd George could not, and I had to speak French. In French I know my vocabulary to be limited, my grammar to be imperfect, and my genders to be at the mercy of chance; further, I am told that my accent is atrocious.... When the Council was over. . .Lloyd George said to me: 'You know your French was the only French that I could understand...