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Stressing the need for an international language, Ivor A. Richards, University professor and collaborator with C. K. Ogden on Basic English, yesterday predicted that when the world adopts one common second speech, "it will probably be Basic plus." The lecturer from Magdslen College, Cambridge, England, pointed out that the English language was the most widely used in the world, and that Basic was an "escalator" into English...
Perhaps his most widely-known work is "The Meaning of Meaning," which he and C. K. Ogden wrote in 1923. During the current term, he is teaching English 35a, Literature and Thought, a new experimental course and the first he has taught for five years at Harvard. Consisting of Homer, Plato, and the Old Testament, "the big B. C. authors" as Professor Richards calls them, the course admitted only 12 students...
...Maud Howe Elliott reach back to the days when Newport tradespeople sent out their bills once or twice a year and closed their shops at noon. At the height of the Newport season, the regulars counted on dining out every night of the week. At two Newport homes, Mrs. Ogden Mills's and Mrs. Elbridge Gerry's, dinner for 100 could be served without calling in outside help. Dinner began at 8:30 and lasted three hours, until King Edward VII decreed that no dinner should last longer than an hour. Guests were invited to balls...
Company II--Pitchers: Keith Miller and Mataset; catcher: Paligraf; infielders: Rafferty, John White, Stafford, Withrow and Stewart; outfielders: Ogden, Wing, Simone, Mills and Tom Smith. Final Standings W L Browns 7 1 Beavers 5 3 Tigers 5 3 Dodgers 2 6 Cardinals...
...Princess Lydia Pasto Hotchkiss Cucurbitaceo-the department store, you know. And the Countess Vitetti-the former Natalie Coe of Long Island and South Carolina. And the Countess Roberti-old Ogden H. Hammond's daughter. And Marchesa Vastezza-the former Bobbie Belchers of New York. And Baroness Carogna-the former Josephine Paddle-ford of Waukegan and Washington, D.C. And the Countess del Sgombro-who was Daphne Zugsmith of St. Paid. And of course, the Marchesa Sconciatura, who was the former Bridget O'Hare of Worcester, Mass...