Word: stationing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reminded me of a night when we had a frugal supper together in a Bloomsbury restaurant?it must have been 40 years ago?when he was a medical student and I was a city clerk. Our combined wealth was insufficient to save us from walking as far as Holloway station...
...Could any of you, with all your capacity to forecast, then have said to both of us: 'Gentlemen, you will bid each other good night tonight at the corner of Holloway station, and it will be your fate not to meet again until invited as guests of His Majesty to partake of his hospitality at Buckingham Palace...
...younger!"- breathlessly loyal Britons passed the word. Thousands stood huddled along London curbstones to see and judge for themselves. Beloved George V was coming home at last to Buckingham Palace after his long convalescence at the rustic royal estate of Sandringham. At spick-and-span King's Cross Station a long red carpet had been spread. Baron Byng of Vimy stood stiff and medal-spangled at one end. As Chief of London's Police he was alert and anxious. This time) the route which Royalty would take to the Palace had not been kept secret, as is usual...
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...prodigious Keller has been a U. S. phenomenon since the age of seven, has won without benefit of favoritism a college degree cum laude (Radcliffe), has cinemacted, lectured, written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor, grieving. Over radio-station WEAF she now "hears" music by lightfingering a wooden sounding-board. Professor Pierre Villey, blind himself, called her a "dupe of words," characterized her esthetic "seeing-hearing" (by touch-vibration) as "a matter of autosuggestion rather than perception." William James, U. S. philosopher, admired her less philosophically, thus...