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Colonel Wedgewood now turned briefly to American politics. Like most visiting Englishmen, he refused to commit himself definitely concerning this touchy subject...
...important fact that nearly all great Englishmen were born in workmen's houses that causes the present day laborer to desire a good education. In classes at Oxford and Cambridge working men and women have proven their ability to write a better hand than their tutors even if they don't spell as well. This brings up the interesting question of whether it is better to write legibly and spell in correctly or to write illegibly with perfect orthography. Please notice that all American business letters have type-written as well as penned signatures...
Critics noted that the work of many artists who are members of the Grand Central Galleries Association has been pointedly omitted from Mrs. Harriman's exhibition. So has that of a good many famed Englishmen and Frenchmen. But although the omissions in this, as in every other international exhibition, will lead to discussion, possibly even to ill-feeling, not even the disgruntled artists themselves could question the patrician disinterestedness of a lady who is one of the most noted sponsors of good art in this country. She was helped in choosing the American artists by Marius de Zayas...
...Basil Thomson, now 64 years of age, was arraigned in a London police court on the incredible charge of having misconducted himself with a young girl in Hyde Park. The more inflammatory despatches did not hesitate to link mention of the crime of rape with the arrest. Stolid Englishmen were literally aghast at what seemed to be a national scandal...
...Englishmen seem to have forgotten all about backward America in the fury of their religious wars. Ten famous English writers, including Arnold Bennett and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were inveigled into writing their religious thinking, into the headlines of the London Daily Express under the title "What I Believe...