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...parade of crews costumed as 18th Century sailors, and from the river the sounds of the famed Eton Boating Song. Because this is the school's gala day, Old Etonians the world over celebrate it with alumni dinners. In India one might travel 1,000 miles and dine with a score of local governors, all Old Etonians, wearing cravats of black striped with pale blue. In Manhattan this month 20 Old Etonians assembled in honor of Speech Day. The day before was the birthday of His Majesty King George V. But Eton does not celebrate that...
...Pilsudski Colonels used to dine nightly at the Cafe Europejska, most fashionable in Warsaw. There, amid popping champagne corks, loud Polish music and exciting Polish women, they made the crazy-quilt politics of Poland. In 1929, however, so many "Pilsudski Colonels" were called to onerous tasks of Government that cafe politics have been on the wane. Never a very good cafe politician was small, stern, intensely militant (although sartorially perfect) Col. Alexander Prystor...
...distant churches. Some curates might be obliged to scurry here & there by motorcycle in order to care for their several flocks. And it is not inconceivable that radio-hook-ups will be instituted to provide clergy-less congregations with their services. Said the Daily Mail: "The country squire will dine alone on five Sundays out of six, for the vicar will have not one but five or six squires in his new parish, and ordinary tenants will inhabit hundreds of old English vicarages...
...pressed, aristocrat that he was. Max, no aristocrat, can and does dress neatly without fear of Soviet gossip. He and Mme Litvinov give Moscow's best, biggest official parties. It is their duty. He must put on long black tails, she a filmy evening dress, and they must dine off gold plate at the Foreign Office as a "concession" (so runs Soviet theory) to the Moscow Corps Diplomatique...
Undersecretary Castle is not like that. Twelve years in the State Department have bred into this slender, grey-haired. grey-eyed man a profound regard for the formal usages of his profession. He would no more give an ambassador such stark instructions than he would dine at the French Embassy in overalls. Yet behind his correct exterior the new Undersecretary is a man of real ability...