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Prime fear of the British last week was that the superstitious natives would blame the whole thing on the British Raj, for the shaken area was entirely within the northern square of Baluchistan which Britain rules as a territory. And the ancient citadel of the Khan of Kalat, friend of the British, lay in ruins, as though for a judgment...
...That citadel of vested interest, the United Kingdom Guild of Bartenders, urged last week that there be "no plagiarism'' of the "officially registered" Royal Jubilee Cocktail and Silver Jubilee Cocktail invented respectively by Savoy Hotel's Harry Craddock and Cafe Royal's Billy Tarling...
...quiet, the meeting is over.) Quakers have little ritual, no priesthood. Their societies are organized simply: in Monthly Meetings (one congregation), Quarterly Meetings (representatives from several Monthly Meetings), Yearly Meetings (representatives from several Quarterly Meetings), General Conferences (numerous Yearly Meetings). Last week two important Yearly Meetings gathered in Philadelphia, citadel of Quakerdom, where some Orthodox Monthly Meetings still object to hymns with music and hired preachers...
According to the students who have visited Quebec, the fine triple-track toboggan slide which extends from the shoulder of the old Citadel and runs past the Chatean Frontenac affords the thrill of a lifetime. However less violent sports of skating on the lake or rink and tramping over snow-bound plains on snowshoes also attract a large share of the visitors. Curling likewise is available for those who enjoy...
When hard, fortyish Colonel Robert de la Roque marched with his quick, springy stride into the Premier's office anything was possible, including - as some jittery Paris papers pointed out - civil war. Gold was in panicky flight from France, citadel of the Gold Standard. Nearly $50,000,000 worth had been drawn by frightened capitalists from the Bank of France within 48 hours to be rushed abroad. Moreover Premier Doumergue had every reason to believe that he had the nation with him and against the politicians on his project of reforming the Constitution. For days delegations had been arriving...