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Malaya seemed to have gone berserk. Arson had become commonplace. Workers battled police with spears and picks. Posters cried: "Destroy those who work for other races." Sir Edward Gent, High Commissioner of the Malay Federation, proclaimed a state of emergency, granted extraordinary powers to the police...
Fildes (rhymes with shields) would not have been too surprised. In the daguerreotypes of his heyday, Sir Luke looked like any well-fed Victorian gent, complete with goatee, chesterfield, and top hat. But he was more: a member of England's Royal Academy and a painter of royalty, including Edward VII, Queen Alexandra and George...
...Gent in the lead in the Injun style...
...bore: by carefully contrived cracks against radio, Southern cooking, horse operas, hairdos and politicking veterans, he had snared 10,000 letters. They had called him a "fascist, warmonger, race baiter and moron. Added to draft dodger, horse hater, sadist and war criminal, it seems I am a very unsavory gent, indeed, and I sometimes wonder how I stand...
...opinion if you are the type who will be bored as the Glee Club sings on the steps of Dartmouth Hall, the kind of a gent who doesn't intend to play some part in the extracurricular activities, and a sap who will sit in the grandstand and talk to your girl friend while the boys dig their noses into the sod to bring glory to the Big Green, then you've picked the wrong college and should change your plans before it is too late."--September 13th issue of The Daily Dartmouth...