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Sidney S. Alexander of Forrest Hill, John D. Cook of Wilkinsburg, Pearson C. Cummin, Jr. of Devon, Harold B. Lang of AspinWall, Donald C. Logan of Turtle Creek, Harvey W. Miller of Wayne, William F. Read, 3rd, of Villa Nova, Irvin G. Shaffer of Reading, Grant E. Wesner of Reading...
...your enthusiastic rooters abroad is Miss Mazo de la Roche, formerly (before the success of her Jalna saga) of Ontario, Canada, but now of Devon, Sicily and surrounding points...
Dick Gunn was down and out in post-War London, but he remembered better days. Before the War he had been land agent for a good friend in Devon. There he had known and liked quixotic, unbalanced John Osmund, and had fallen in love with Helen, Osmund's fiancee. Osmund and two cronies, attempting a Robin Hood burglary, had been arrested, jailed. Gunn was still in love with Helen but he had not seen her since. One cold night in Piccadilly, with only a half-crown between him and something desperate, he found them all again...
...pensioners on the ground that we should not only spare them the pain of toothache but also reduce the burden on the National Exchequer. It is about as convincing as the suggestion, supplied by a peer of the realm in a pamphlet recently put out by the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, that the stag deserves to be hunted because 'he is a selfish old fellow, much addicted to the pleasures of the table and the harem'-which might involve us in hunting some of the landed gentry as well as the old-age pensioners...
...stoutly repeated Mr. Harman, "and as the sovereign of Lundy, I coined puffins and half-puffins as I have a right to do!" Counsel for Mr. Harmun argued that his 1,150-acre-island, 12 mi. off the north coast of Devon, is "not only outside the British Realm but outside the rest of the world.'' They declared that it was chiefly this circumstance which attracted Mr. Harman to Lundy, caused him to buy the island in 1925 for the round sum of ?10,000 ($50,000). Since then, self-styled Sovereign Harman has successfully exacted rent from...