Word: steuart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sirs: Steuart H. Britt's letter in TIME of Dec. 31 is not adequately answered by your comment. Students of history should be informed that in reality Atchison was never President of the United States. Polk was President until midnight (not noon, as Mr. Britt says) of March 3, 1849, and promptly thereafter Taylor became President. The Constitution provides, concerning the Presidents: "Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath. . . ." President Taylor took this oath at noon on March 5 because he had no occasion to enter on the execution...
...Rouge Croix, Bluemantle, Port Cully, and Rouge Dragon -are chiefly useful in seeking and receiving the permission of the Lord Mayor for the Earl Marshal and Kings of Arms to enter the "City of London**." The final proclamation is made by Norroy King of Arms, at present Arthur William Steuart Cochrane...
...famous quarrel with Henley, his early friend and supporter, Mr. Steuart treats at length. It was not, as generally supposed, a sudden thing, but the result of a succession of minor episodes. And it was, it appears, largely the fault of Stevenson, whose hot rage would never forgive a fancied disloyalty. Henley himself never harbored resentment, in spite of his disparaging criticism of his former friend, often regarded as evidence of a vengeful nature...
Stevenson's love of pose, his affectations, his theatric sense Mr. Steuart sees again in his last days in Samoa, as a sort of white chief, a lord of the manor among the admiring natives. "A bouncing egotist who loves the limelight as a beachcomber loves rum," said his neighbors...
...Biography. For the first time, R. L. S. is observed without prejudice. And for the first time the facts appear at last to be accessible about this strange, heroic figure. Mr. Steuart does not slur over his defects. He sets down the facts accurately but sympathetically, substitutes for the idol a man. His estimate of Stevenson's work is careful and just. He sees him as a writer not of the first rank?a master of the English language, doing perfectly things of secondary significance. But whatever his merits as an artist, as a man he stands among the heroes...