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Henry Belin du Pont, rich & ardent young assistant treasurer of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. at Wilmington, Del., in April became engaged to Margaret Wilson Lewis at San Antonio, Texas. Separating them are 1,600 air miles. So last week Mr. du Pont had delivered to him a $12,000 Bellanca plane, wherewith to fly to his sweetheart each weekend...
King Mihai, is an ardent disciple of his mother's friend...
...Insatiable longing for earthly goods, unbridled predominance of civil interests, ardent search for popular favor and contempt of legitimate authority and the word of God have shaken faith itself, or very gravely threaten...
...Most Catholic Majesty is thought to agree with Dictator Primo de Rivera that none of the four Spanish Infantes (sons of the King) are physically fit to inherit the Throne. For their weaknesses and infirmities His Majesty is understood to blame not his own ardent self, but Her Majesty. He is said to have tested this theory by begetting, under the rose, certain quite robust offspring...
...England's mellowest legends concerns a Countess of Salisbury who found her garter slipping, in the merry, ardent days of Edward III (1312-77). Down and down slipped the garter until it tumbled before the knowing eyes of a pack of smirking courtiers. But Edward III, with instant chivalry, stooped, retrieved the ribbon, tied it just below his own royal knee, and exclaimed to the Courtiers in immortal reproof: "Honi soit qui mal y pense!" (Evil be to him who evil thinks...