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John Heath's chapter-brothers last week performed rites initiating, causa honoris, Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, who is now entitled to dangle upon his watch-chain the familiar golden watch-key graven with three stars and a pointing hand...
...Lockout-Strike." The long standing causa belli was, of course, the long standing demand of the British Coal Miners' Federation for continuance of the seven-hour day and a national minimum wage scale 33 1/3% above the pre-War wage...
Capitalist-pilgrim Hyde has dwelt for some years at Paris; is a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor; has received degrees honoris causa, from Princeton and the University of Rennes, France; wears a pointed mustache, a Van Dyck beard, often a floppy...
Secretary Mellon's visit, labelled causa sanitatis, has been very quiet. In exactly what important business he is engaged, the world does not know, but that it is important business hardly anyone can doubt. After all, isolation is largely a matter of form. Political isolation cannot restore the real isolation which was destroyed, not by the Wilson regime, but by peaceful com merce over a period of decades...
Alcoholism increased, but wood-alco-hol decreased as a causa mortis. And the usual increase was shown in motorcar deaths...