Word: bolitho
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...Bolitho would replace Donald H. Shively, the professor of Japanese History and literature who resigned last year to go to Berkeley...
...Chevalier costume-un smoking (dinner jacket) and straw hat-is a vestigial remnant of the days before the War when, as Guest Contributor William Bolitho of the New York World says: "Young men dressed like this in the evenings and had fun . . . Look at Chevalier's queer straw hat with the same shiver as you see the Cap of Liberty stuck up in Tammany Hall, or the Crown of England. There is human history...
Robin Hood. In London, Gerald Bolitho was sentenced to 21 months in jail despite his plea that in stealing a rare manuscript from the British Museum he did the museum a good turn, "because I have shown up a defect in their system...
...though it passes over in silence what must have been the domestic travails of Edward's good Queen Alexandra. The forthright role of the royal family in two world wars is given due credit, and the constitutional crisis that dethroned Edward VIII gets a judicious, white-gloved examination. Bolitho concludes that, although the tasks of kingship were apparently "intolerable" to Edward, "as heir to the throne he was the noblest and most devoted Prince of Wales in our history...
...Author Bolitho, a New Zealand-born journalist, should be as familiar with his subject as any living writer. A Century of British Monarchy is his twelfth book on the members of the House of Windsor...