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...hushed up, like King Edward's intentions toward Mrs. Simpson, but proclaimed to take place Jan. 7. Last week the Dutch were as happy about Juliana as the British were upset over Edward. Dutchmen do not stand about in clubs muttering vaguely, "It isn't done." In blunt, indignant Dutch they said straight out last week what they thought of attempts to pretty up the House of Windsor by slinging sour grapes at the House of Orange-Nassau...
...conclusion, after a careful summary of reasons why Lincoln should grow a beard and a really masterful and wholly feminine appeal to his vanity, was naively blunt: "Answer this letter right off-goodbye...
...books constitute an amazing picture of the smashing of a world power, the first volume more readable as a connected narrative, the second more notable for its explicit records of events over which historians have speculated endlessly. A stoic, melancholy spirit, Caulaincourt was a strange combination himself, a blunt, hard-riding man of action who was also a fatalist and a philosopher, and who wrote with classic seventy...
...Institute meeting last week came tall, bespectacled Wilmer R. Schuh, 34, of Milwaukee, with a white carnation in his lapel and blunt words about the response of filling station men to the Iowa plan. Mr. Schuh is president of the National Association of Petroleum Retailers, which was formed under NRA, includes more than 50,000 of the 170,000 filling station owners in the U. S. Mr. Schuh's principal job since the Iowa Plan was adopted has been to quell price wars among the new independents. Said...
...mere Victorian period piece surviving to a cynical and indifferent age. Born in London in 1852, he was brought up by his Spanish grandmother and his Scotch father, lived through enough careers in his 84 years to make such celebrated literary men of action as Doughty or Wilfrid Blunt seem sedentary by comparison. Leaving school before he was 17, he sailed to South America, traded in cattle and mules, traveled across Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, learned to ride like a Gaucho and usually lived like one. At 27 he married a Chilean, "Gabriella, the daughter of Don Francisco Jose...