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...Queen Nazli excelled her brood in snapping, developing and printing photographs. Her Majesty is a descendant of a French com-mander of dragoons whom the Emperor Napoleon took to Egypt, and from this ancestor King Farouk inherits his "heavy dragoon" appearance, big-boned, healthy and hefty, with a fair complexion most rare in an Egyptian. Like many people of Arab strain, however, His Majesty is not only "quick at arithmetic" but also in the intricacies of higher mathematics. Like any Oriental potentate he keeps a taster who first samples his food lest he be poisoned, a bold little English licensed...
Henry Cotton has the clothes and polish of a Mayfair blade, the build and complexion of a matador. Most serious of British professionals, he is nervous and temperamental. He offends associates by his indifference to P. G. A. edicts and his frank money-making zeal. On the course he is apt to tear up his card when his game slips, explode over camera clicks and yelping dogs. Slightly stoop-shouldered, he flouts form by bending his left arm at the start of his stroke. Otherwise, as last week's victory suggested, his style is as studied as his temper...
...Angelo Herndon decision seems to crystallize the mugwump position which the President's followers take. They admit the imperative need for an independent judiciary in such a case as this, but that doesn't in the least abate their pleas to give the President the power to "change the complexion of the Court...
...before his appointment to the Court) not voting. Six years later another minimum wage law passed by Congress for the District of Columbia came before the Supreme Court. Again Justice Brandeis did not vote, presumably because his daughter had been agitating for such laws. By this time, however, the complexion of the Court had changed. Instead of tying 4-4, thereby giving the Law the benefit of Constitutional doubt, the Court voted 5-3 against it. In 1925 a minimum wage law of Arizona, in 1927 a similar law of Arkansas, last year a similar law of New York...
...snowstorm kept him overnight in the port of Tientsin and Correspondent A. T. Steele of the New York Times, visiting Yin's capital of Tungchow, found a Yin subordinate, plump and beaming. Chung Tun-fu, in a state of garrulity almost unheard of among Chinese politicos of any complexion. Plump Chung professes to be a great-nephew of Manchukuo's Premier General Chang Ching-hui. Blabbed...