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...lyre of the Empire with greater else than some of his predecessors. The late Robert Bridges often refused to sing; may his successor follow the same path. There are more things for a Laureate to do than merely to chirp either at the royal or even the national behest. The position is as much one of honor as a lease upon his genius, and should it deprive us of the vigorous Masefield, and give us a patriotic poet in his place, the loss would be greater than the world can afford. Let Reynard the Fox still run in the forest...
Baldwin: "I have no intention of resigning as leader of the Conservative Party at the behest of Rothermere (who wants the post himself). . . . Lord Rothermere proved a failure in the two Ministerial posts he held during the War (Director General of Army Clothing Department and Air Minister...
...would disappear. As it is now, it means very little to university faculties and nothing at all in any other profession. But the degree has a fond place in academic tradition, and it is doubtful that it will be universally discarded for many years. But at Mr. Lowell's behest, it may soon vanish at Harvard. --Boston Herald...
...effective activities of Christian Science Committees on Publication. Author Thompson reminded his readers of the fate of an earlier biography of Mrs. Eddy, The Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy, by Adam & Lillian S. Dickey, published in 1927 by the Merrymount Press of Boston. This book was recalled at the behest of the Board of Directors of the Mother Church in Boston so thoroughly that now only four copies exist...
...begun to paint in Paris. He finished her commission after landing and proceeded, with introductions from Sir Joseph Duveen, to accommodate alert Manhattanites. In Philadelphia he painted Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury and all six of the A. Atwater Kents. He went to Detroit to paint Col. Lindbergh at the behest of Edsel Ford, who wanted to give the portrait to the city. But Col. Lindbergh backed out of the engagement lest all U. S. cities make similar demands on his time. In his large Book-Cadillac studio-suite, Painter Chandor stayed at Detroit, painting the prosperous, until last spring when...