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...Great Britain, rather than the United States, should utter the first concerted prayer against a journalism which is, in the words of last week's British Press Convention, "little more than a monstrous invasion of individual privacy." That journalism is sufficiently isolated in Great Britain to make its proboscis glitter; in the republic it is always with us, and there is scarcely an important daily whose policy it does not mould and inform. We have developed, by our demand, a large class of journalistic ferrets with no art but that of intruding themselves where they are not wanted, no talent...
...King and Queen were in residence! "I felt ill, sir." said Guardsman .Harris, "and everything went black-like in front of me." At Buckingham Palace sneak thieves sneaked into the Royal Mews and stole from the hooks where it hung the solid gold bosses, buckles, and bangles that glitter on the scarlet leather harness of the eight horses that pull the state coach...
...lady sadist executed for strangling three of her lovers, comes back to inhabit temporarily the body of a pure young heiress (Carole Lombard) who consults Bavian to get news of her dead twin brother. The heiress faints during a seance; when she wakes up, her eyes have a fiendish glitter. She entices Bavian aboard her yacht. He breaks out of her cabin in a puzzled panic and manages to strangle himself, apparently on the anchor rope, while trying to escape. Silliest shot: Bavian leering at his poor old dipsomaniac landlady until she falls over in a giggling swoon...
...Versailles Treaty plebiscites were held in northern and central Schleswig. The Danish northern zone plumped for Denmark. To Denmark's rage & grief the central zone voted to stay German. Since then, both Slesvig Danes and Schleswig Prussians have looked covetously across the new border. Lately a new glitter has come into Prussian Nazi eyes. Last week Danes heard that Nazis planned an Easter visit to Danish Slesvig in full Nazi uniform...
Though it lacked the glitter of great names, though partisan Republicans might call it a "small-time" aggregation of administrative talent and disgruntled Democrats might object, sectionally, the Roosevelt Cabinet seemed well received by the country. Most of its members know by long experience the business of government. It presaged good teamwork with a President who obviously would be its master...