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Industries Fair and pulling up his trouser leg to reveal that he wears British garter-less, elastic-top socks...
...this would be bettered if Sir Samuel Hoare came a cropper, for he was then Mr. Chamberlain's chief rival to be future occupant of No. 10 Downing St. Something had to be decided quickly and Chancellor Chamberlain's respected halfbrother, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter and Nobel Peace Prizeman, was zealous in telling the befuddled Stanley Baldwin what a dirty, dirty deal the whole thing really was. In an amazing House of Commons scene the Prime Minister, after trying to bluff "The Deal" through with the claim that if only his lips could be unsealed...
...Under the mellow brick walls of St. James's Palace the blond, horsy young Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England, led a gaudy procession to a scarlet-draped balcony. The silver trumpets of the Horse Guards blew a fanfare, then up stepped Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms, looking like a very expensive Jack of Clubs in his stiff gold-embroidered tabard, and began to read from a long parchment scroll. All the world could hear him, for microphones were concealed in the balcony rail. The first sentence lasted twelve minutes without a period. Excerpts...
...Zeeland had thus spoken in clear, temperate language, His Majesty's Government found the honor and good faith of the United Kingdom engaged and tested. Famed British elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain (who was the chief architect of the Locarno Pact and was made a Knight of the Garter by King George for having erected this supposedly unbreakable barrier to war), vigorously jammed last week into British thinking machines his opinion that, since Germany in 1870 "dictated" to France and stripped her of two provinces, Germany in 1936 has no right to object to what Germans call the Diktat...
...Munro & Co. manufacture an ingenious "Munrospun Sock" into which is woven its own garter. Stopping at their booth, King Edward VIII pulled up his trouser leg, revealing a Munrospun Sock, and said: "I have been wearing socks like these for four years. They are the most remarkable socks you can get. . . . These really are jolly good! British buyers should try out new things. I always do myself." John Dickinson & Co., makers of paper shirt fronts for waiters known as "Dickinson's Dickeys," were favored with a jest by Edward VIII: "Splendid! But will they wash...