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...sort of little story Russians are always telling about Stalin, Germans about Hitler and Turks about Kamal Ataturk-a story which might be true and strikes the tellers as supremely characteristic-was being murmured over London teacups last week about God-fearing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Englishmen make a great thing of initials in their speech and the "P. M." (Prime Minister) was said to have been going over with the Cabinet the speech he subsequently made in the House of Commons upon the accession of King Edward VIII. Afterward Mr. Baldwin's secretary gathered up the manuscript...
...death of beloved George V filled the Kingdom's illustrated papers for weeks with every conceivable picture of His late Majesty. Instinctively, out of all the thousands, Englishmen picked one snapshot as their favorite (see cut). Last week began a movement to cast in enduring bronze kindly, paternal King George and the grinning little paint-pot boy who proffered a small, grimy paw to His Majesty in a British shipyard in 1917. "Find that boy!" ordered London editors last week. Soon John Michael Cassidy was found. He turned out to have been in 1917 not the child he looks...
...Oldtime Englishmen hung up their meat ... to tenderize, and when it gave off a slight aroma it was said to be "high." A goose in this delectable condition was ready for the fall and winter feasting and festivals and, from the anticipation thereof, arose the foregoing connotation...
...Harvard Club, which consists of Americans, who have graduated at Harvard, and of Englishmen, who have studied there, meets only two or three times a year, to welcome visitors as on this occasion...
...characteristic of all Santayana's writing that the weightiest subjects are handled with lightness and grace. The Last Puritan, no exception, contains amusing portraits of crabbed New Englanders. sophisticated New Yorkers, self-important Englishmen, sentimental Germans, to temper the gravity of the tale. It also contains extended digressions, discussions of German philosophy, of Shakespeare, Goethe, English education, yachting, sports, war, rises in its record of Oliver's last decision to some of the most eloquent prose that Santayana has written. Yet critics are likely to disagree for a long time to come over the question of whether...