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...Friend Cuthbert Wright in his letter of November 4 is indulging in a variant of the old and fascinating game of priest-baiting--fascinating because the gentlemen of the cloth invariably fume so furiously and at the same time so impotently. But this same estimable sir is unfortunate in that the felicity of his pen is unmatched by the maturity of his criticism. If there is anything more offensive than the merriment of parsons it is perhaps the juvenility of minds...
...brisk and virile at church doors, and who in their hearts find Jesus Christ all very well, but not so absorbing as Golf on week days. Comment is superfluous; all the same one is continually reminded of Dr. Johnson's dictum: "Sir, the merriment of parsons is mightily offensive." Cuthbert Wright...
...bowl-shaped holes of a course designed and owned by Comedian Joe Cook. Though the majority of golfers have never made a hole-in-one, Tom Washington, professional at the Monomonock Golf Club at Caldwell, N. J. has made 23. One G. Barnard, at the Prestwick St. Cuthbert's Course at Ayr, Scotland, made five holes-in-one between August 1929 and June 1930. Most holes-in-one are made by indifferent golfers assisted greatly by good fortune. Most expert golfers have made one or more holes-in-one. Robert Tyre Jones Jr. has made...
Married. Dorothy Rose Duveen, only daughter of art-dealing Sir Joseph Duveen of London and Manhattan; and William Francis Cuthbert Garthwaite, 25, eldest son of Ship Merchant Sir William Garthwaite who owns the S. V. Garthpool, the last square-rigged ocean-going ship to sail the British flag; in London...
...Council. People, and Hon. Violet Blanche particularly, wanted to know why. She refused to accept any other government post until her name had been cleared. She comes of potent family: her brother is Lord Penrhyn and she is related to Viscounts Falmouth and Portman, Sir W. E. Cuthbert-Quilter and Dudley M'Garel-Hogg, Lord Magheramorne. There were editorials in the newspapers and an investigation by the House of Lords Select Committee. Nothing came of it except a brief statement from the Attorney General in the House of Commons...