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...London have seen her in gay night clubs, where she is toasted as Mayfair's wit and called the original of Michael Arlen's green-hatted lady. Visitors last winter in the Bahamas saw her parade the beach in pink bathing pajamas, and one night dance in the sand around a palm-shadowed driftwood blaze, a barefooted nymph of the tropics. Madonna, nun, nymph, notable, she is first and foremost a young lady in love with life...
...Vincent Auriol: "On the Tribune with all the ingenuity of which you are capable you may be able to balance the budget with your scheme; and you may really have a scheme which might balance it. But there is not confidence behind you! All your plans are built on sand! That is why M. Doumer and I are seeking collaboration which will restore the necessary confidence and procure resources for the state...
...Nile. They had come almost to the edge of the rock where it was cut away in prehistoric ages by the Nile and has since been covered every year with a thick layer of the Nile mud which the inundation spreads over the entire valley. The thick layer of sand which has covered the plateau for thousands of years with periodic intermissions when enterprising Egyptologists have laid bare the feet of the Sphinx, the Valley Temple of Khephren and the other monuments east of the pyramids. For many years there has persisted a belief that into the very bed rock...
...Great Pyramid had ever contained the body of a king. He was loathe also to discredit all the theories of Herodotus and so he set his assistants to work on the edge of the rock platform. The hundred native laborers were made to clean off thousands of tons of sand and debris which were thrown into the valley beneath. Then the trained archaeologists were put to a minute clearing of the naked rock...
...formulas and cold logic. Human life is only partially rational. And by considering it wholly so, much of our education has become so much fact and circumstances dumped out of the dusty confines of some pedant's notebook and abandoned by him like so many blasted stumps on a sand-dune, completely severed from life and all things living. We are just awakening to the fact that by neglecting the imaginative and spiritual side of life, much of our education has reached an advanced stage...