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Lloyd-Greame. CHARACTER: "Philip Lloyd-Greame is unquestionably one of the ablest men now in Parliament, and one of the most eager and energetic. He has the economic facts of the British Empire at his fingers' ends, and his brain is a series of pigeonholes stuffed with the documents of world trade . . . laughing at ant-heaps. . . . I regard him as a man of the very highest promise, and one who may yet do as much for the prosperity of the British Empire as any man now living...
...obliging young woman is Miss Joyce Wethered. She spent last week going around and around the Cooden Beach golf links in Sussex, England, demonstrating to her countrywomen that she, aged 22, is by far the ablest golfemale whom great Britain-and perhaps the world- possesses. It was the third time in as many years that Miss Wethered had made this ladies' championship demonstration. In her six 18-hole matches this year, she permitted none of her opponents save Miss Cecil Leitch, semifinalist, to survive beyond the 14th green. Miss Leitch reached the 15th. In the 36-hole final, Miss...
THOMAS THE LAMBKIN-Claude Farrere-Dutton ($2.00). Who wouldn't be a pirate? Granted Thomas Trublet's delectable natural aptitudes, no one could hesitate to embrace that active vocation. Thomas, Frenchman, mighty man of valor, ablest seaman of them all, butcherer of men, ravisher of women, man of his word (with reservations), sailed from the port of St. Malo to a career of blood and battle and of passion. He seized galleons, captured cities, slaughtered crews under the Jolly Roger. He was first ennobled, then hanged from his own yardarm by his Most Christian King. His undoing...
...Brilliant as a legislator, skilled as an Ambassador, characterized by Chief Justice William Howard Taft as the ablest lawyer in the world, it would be possible for him to bring to the office of President qualifications rarely given the ordinary individual. The wave of unrest in the agricultural and the industrial centres of the land may be traced to the glut in the market, resulting from inability of the American Public to absorb the output of America...
Actors. Gen. Wu Pei-fu, Tuchun-of Chihli Province. He is the ablest military mind of China. Under his control is the whole north and centre of China, except Manchuria. He is the Lord Protector of Peking, which is in his province. Although a democrat, he aims at reunifying China by the sword, which policy has brought him into conflict with the Tuchun of Manchuria and Dr. Sun Yatsen, of the South. One of the anomalies of the situation in Peking is that President Tsao-Kun was once an enemy of Gen. Wu. At the time Tsao-Kun was made...