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  2. FAMOUS LAST PORTRAITS:

    (WAS SPENDING A WEEK'S LEAVE AT A FABIAN SOCIETY SUMMER SCHOOL IN 1942 AND wanted to see the Webbs, who lived quite near, at Passfield Corner, Liphook, Surrey. After arranging an appointment I was received in the most friendly fashion by Mrs. Webb. She was wearing a strikingly picturesque costume, apparently donned specially for the occasion. She tole me that Sidney ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,338 words
  3. THE SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE

    founding of the Fabian Society -- the society which exerted a profound influence in Britain in political life in the 80's and 90's' of last century and attracted to its circle some of the keenest ...

    Article : 133 words
  4. TIDY TO PERFECTION:

    THINK I MUST HAVE SEEN IT IN ONE OF THOSE GLOSSY AMERICAN magazines and it has haunted my waking dreams ever since. Time was when those admirable boys' periodicals which used to delight us elders in our youth, I but now alas ! are no more, assumed that no true boy was really happy unless he ...

    Article : 1,135 words
  5. Temporarily Enlightened Despot: Catherine the Great

    THE GREAT" IS A TITLE FOUND ONLY ONCE IN ENGLISH. AMONG English heads of State, two Williams, two Henrys, an Edward, an Elizabeth and an Oliver might have qualified for it, but only Alfred received it. That was 1000 years ago. Other countries had their titular great as recently as the 18th ...

    Article : 1,038 words
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