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Among so-called Bright Young People "lousy" has become a playful adjective. Even "guts" is almost a tea-table noun. But in London last week Alfred Duff Cooper, husband of Lady Diana Manners, used both these words with Victorian vigor. In a speech attacking Viscount Rothermere, blatant "British Hearst," Mr. Cooper rumbled and roared...
Never before had this been done by a man not sent from beyond the seas by His Majesty. The nice, oldish gentleman is 100% Canadian: Mr. Justice Lyman Poore Duff of Canada's Supreme Court...
With a cavalry escort, with the guard of honor of a viceroy, Judge Duff whirled up Parliament Hill. For him the brass band of the footguards played "God Save the King." In legal fiction the nice, oldish gentleman was the King. It was the most exciting day of his life...
Speech, Speech. While he was at it, Judge Duff made one of the longest and least exciting Speeches from the Throne that Canada has ever heard. The Bennett Government (whose members, of course, wrote the speech) did so well at the election last year (TIME, Aug. 11), that they can sit back with impregnable parliamentary strength, lofty and vague...
...those of the I'm Alone and Josephine K. Should the Canadian Government protest Captain Cluett's killing, the next step would be to appoint a commissioner from each country to arbitrate. Justice Van (See col. 3) Devanter of the U. S. Supreme Court and Justice Duff of the Canadian Supreme Court have yet to settle the I'm Alone case...