Word: halifax
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...will do Coast Guard shore patrol work went into training on the estate of Joseph E. Widener, multimillionaire Philadelphia art patron and horse breeder. Into the Army for training went Gogo and Cliquot, green-eyed Cinemactress Greer Garson's Fighting French poodles. On tour with her husband, Lady Halifax visited the St. Louis Zoo, unflinchingly did the monkeyshines expected of a diplomat's wife...
Ever since the Indian Mutiny in 1857 the British Raj had managed to deal with such disturbances. A long line of viceroys, some bad, some as imbued with noble sentiments as Viscount Halifax, professed that British rule was guiding India through evolution to eventual dominionhood in the British Empire. But last week it appeared that evolution had turned into revolution. India held not only jailed prophets but also homemade bombs, pistols and bottles of acid in the hands of terrorists. From the western world the Indians were learning the technique of violence, not the technique of self-government...
...minutes before dropping all our eggs. Several times we got caught in the lights, but I managed to sideslip out of them each time. . . . The Flak was relatively light. I guess the Jerries must have been holding it for the poor fellows caught in the lights. We saw one Halifax caught in a cone of about 50 lights with the Jerries pumping streams into the apex until it exploded and slowly spiraled down...
...wears canary yellow suits and gives lavish tiger-hunting parties. He is married to an American girl, the former Margaret Lawler. Unlike most of the other 561 princely potentates (see cuts), he is known for his liberalism. He speaks for himself, perhaps not for others whose kingdoms, as Lord Halifax said, are "enshrined in solemn treaties" between them and their King-Emperor. Junior announced: "Isolation of the Indian states is now a thing of the past and I hope they will associate themselves more directly with national aspirations...
...Frederick D. Tyner is a gaunt, 65-year-old Episcopal rector in Minneapolis who looks like Lord Halifax but has a lot more bounce. He has probably done more than any other man alive to combine the activities of golf and religion; he has built St. Luke's Church up from 30 to 1,000 members while cutting his golf handicap down to 8. His "Good Golfers' Dinners" are famed throughout the Northwest, feature screwball debates on such subjects as "RESOLVED, That all bad putting is due to a bad conscience." Now Pastor Tyner also preaches twice weekly...