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...died in 1919. During her lifetime she had: 1) seen her Poems of Passion, published in 1883, sell 60,000 copies in two years and take its place in plush binding with The Rubaiydt of Omar Khayyam on the nation's parlor table; 2) purveyed sunshine and consolation to the multitude through syndicated articles in Hearst papers; 3) triumphantly covered the funeral of Queen Victoria for the New York American, by writing, on the spot, a poem called The Queen's Last Ride; 4) been presented as a famous American at the Court of St. James...
...University Theatre. The costuming is brilliant, the sets impressive and seemingly authentic and the technicolor, which has been so cousistenly bad in the past, achieves a new and more than welcome reality. As is to be expected however, the personal triumph of Bette Davis as the ruthless but passion-torn Elizabeth is the high point of the picture. For this is the type of gutty part which other actresses shun, but in which Miss Davis seems to revel. But her dashing Essex, Errol Flynn, moons through his scenes like a self-conscious school boy. And as if this were...
Then roared the crowds their deeply awed approval. Women fainted in the passion of their admiration. The fairest offered him their nuptial beds. All thought him Thor, the puissant god of war. For none before had crossed ve Harvard Square...
...always just like a grown man, from the time he could walk." Nade had the best memory but Cord was the best speaker. Once he wrote a powerful essay titled "Clothes Don't Make the Man," delivered it wearing a blue homespun work shirt. But his one real passion seemed to be politics, which he followed with the same sort of scorecard interest with which schoolboys now follow baseball...
...scholars have reason to honor him because he did much to eliminate wheat rust. His early ideas about soldiering were radical: he was against Army bands, as too glamorous, and uniforms, because he wanted to see universal defense training for the civil population. These ideas faded as his passion for mathematical precision advanced him. His checking for artillery fire last time in France was so good that sometimes his barrage shots, before Canadian advances, blasted German guns before they could get their muzzle and breech covers off. Soldiers, in Canada and elsewhere, rate him the ablest officer in the British...