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...more than a novelty in the western hemisphere--they are a threat. For the whole union will have no better king than Alphonoso and America rather scruples at foreign superiority--even in crowns. The immigration officials must ask them to leave their sceptres at the customs house--or chagrin will reign in democratic hearts...
...lines, but it is of the sort that provokes internal laughter and the delighted eye, not the yokel's guffaw. Whenever Mr. Kelly courts the latter, he fumbles. One cannot help but feel that on the opening night the dead flop of these lines must have caused him chagrin and that he may have learned a well-pointed lesson...
Imagine my chagrin on reading your report of the New York Auto Show (TIME Jan. 18) when I found no reference to the Gardner in your list of Eights for less than $2,000. The Gardner is $1995, is one of the first Eight-in-line cars ever made and?well, I rank it among eights as I rank TIME among periodicals. . . . A. W. CORRIGAN...
...revenue powers, of the Senate by its treaty powers, of the Supreme Court in judicial review, and of the several states by independent local action, to delay or nullify careful negotiations with the rest of the human race. The author's solicitude, here dispassionate, doubtless reflects the chagrin of President Wilson's friend and closest Cabinet associate at the fate of the Versailles Treaty. He pleads for constitutional adequacy to aid in preventing another world-wide conflagration...
...Harvard's almost unbroken series of defeats during the past 12 years in Rowing, Baseball, and Football contests with her old rival Yale, have caused her loyal alumni the deepest chagrin. Without for one moment questioning the fact that Harvard's want of success has been as keenly felt by those who have been graduated during the period from 1880 to 1892, the almost complete loss of prestige in athletics gained by Harvard over Yale from 1868 to 1879 makes it all the more difficult for those whose four years in Cambridge fell within the earlier period to understand what...