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...involved process of diplomatic backmail Mrs. Chalfont herself becomes deeply enmeshed. Upon learning of his wife's Haison the senile statesman assumes that her partner in crime is his pretty petitioner's spouse, and that Mrs. Chalfont holds himself, despite his many winters, in no low esteem. And so he insists that all four get divorces and he and Chalfont exchange wives How he is made aware of his egregious flatulence, how he gives the post to the deserving man, and his blanket apology to all concerned in his best House of Lords manner makes an amusing third...
...sent a great airfleet to demonstrate over New York and New England last year. He went before Congress, won its favor, got larger appropriations for his service. He pushed the Navy's technical development, argued for more dirigibles. Result: Naval aeronautics todays stands higher, in efficiency, effectiveness and popular esteem, than ever before...
...ready to believe that abolition of alcohol would make for social uplift. The slow arrival of that uplift has not discouraged Idealist Hoover about its ultimate arrival. The sharp swing of public sentiment away from the present law challenges his stubborn nature, for he holds mass thought in low esteem. Even his political ambition is part of this attitude, his Quaker conscience telling him he must continue in his position, cost what pain it may, for the ultimate public good...
Today brings around the thirtieth anniversary of the Phillips Brooks House which for so long has held a position of esteem and appreciation. Throughout its history the organization has ever given aid to outsiders and established pleasant contacts with hundreds of people who might otherwise have been beyond the reach of the University. By continual and impartial action it has brought together numbers of persons in the cause of human welfare, irrespective of class and faith. Within the hospitable doors of the organization foreign students have found the friends and acquaintances which they need...
...played the violin. But everyone did not know that he had married twice (Louise Wheeler in 1889. Elizabeth Mooney in 1905), that he had quietly divorced his first wife, had been divorced in Reno by his second. But his disapproval of women in public did not lessen his esteem for their personal capacities...