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...Bishop of Exeter concluded: "Life in India is much more like that in China than in Exeter! Twenty years ago some wonderful hopes were expressed about China. When the power of the Emperor was removed, there were to be representative institutions and responsible Government. Why has China's fairest province just been plucked from her? Because her generals are all dishonest! Their morality is completely gone...
...satisfying Old-Fashioned Democrat. The new legislation of 1933 reminded him of "the first chapter of the Book of Genesis." Later he is convinced that "The recovery isn't following the program; the program is following the recovery." Speaking in his own right, however, Author Kent is the fairest as well as the most deadly journalistic critic of the Administration. He has no ax to grind, never hits below the belt. He does not like government regulation; his heart is with the small taxpayer and the Maryland Free State. In short, he is a sound Jeffersonian of pre-Civil...
...over the countryside looking for antiques. Lady Scott wrote the music for "Annie Laurie," first popularized by the British soldiers at Sebastopol. She edited the poem thoroughly, made the second stanza read: Her brow is like the snowdrift, Her neck is like the swan, Her face it is the fairest That e'er the sun shone on. . . . Willie Douglas' version: She's backit like the peacock, She's briestit like the swan; She's jimp about the middle, Her waist ye weel micht span. . . . Last week in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Captain Reginald Houldsworth was married...
...just succumbed; the swords and lances of blue-nosed morality and pseudo-science were hacking and slashing at Merrie England. A noble tradition was in peril--who would defend it? Launcelot came forward in the venerable person of George Saintsbury, to champion the cause of the first and fairest of the immortal trio, Wine, Woman, and Song. The victory went to the good cause, and Mr. Pussyfoot retired ignominiously to his American domain, there to reign supreme for 14 years. When finally his oppressive rule galled too much, and his subjects rose in wrath and expelled him, what more fitting...
...Roman Catholic, Mrs. Bertram Brooke went up in an airplane over the British channel to be received into the faith of Mohammed by a red-fezzed dignitary of the Western Islamic Association who shouted above the roar of propellers: "I give thee the name of Khair-ul-Nissa, Fairest of Women." (TIME...