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...Umar Hayat Khan. In this attendance on the King Emperor the kings find their highest prestige. Because the Maharaja of Bikaner is today the Prince in waiting to George V of the Indian Empire, he plans to stop in London for a year. English friends call him "The Englishman," their highest praise. Last week "The Englishman" took an entire floor at the Carlton Hotel, gave no parties, did no shopping, but dropped in on his numerous English friends. Before leaving India he flung a largesse of $20,000 for celebration of the Silver Jubilee in his State of Bikaner, spent...
...frequent Wilsonian rebukes: "Beg that you will not regard the position of this Government as merely academic. Contact with opinion on this side the water would materially alter your view. . . ." But long before the U. S. joined the Allies, Page had become, in Wilson's eyes, "just another Englishman...
...great worship of each other, the ultimate disgrace which Luke brings on the whole family, are all skilfully and sympathetically presented. The book is full of rich character-interest--in Luke the author creates a figure who is real, tangilo and pathetically endearing. More fine novels by this young Englishman may be justly expected; he has here demonstrated an inspired knowledge of human nature and a thoroughly adequate technique...
...other airplane, sent especially from London to Prague last week, picked up at the Czechoslovak capital a handsome but sadly wilted young Englishman for whom the Empire has had high hopes. Two weeks of high pressure contacts with three dictators - Hitler, Stalin - and Pilsudski-had definitely proved too much for Captain Anthony Eden, George V's Lord Privy Seal...
...never gave a "busy signal." He attributes his family's success to a diet prescribed by Mrs. Ruddy, no smoking or drinking by any Ruddy, the fact that the Ruddys never overdo. That N. Y. A. C. water polo teams, since the game was imported by an Englishman named Fred Wells in 1885, have been the best in the U. S. is due largely to Joe Ruddy Sr. But it is also largely his fault that they have not won more championships. In 1911, in Pittsburgh, the New York Athletic Club and the Chicago Athletic Club played the roughest...