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...Ronald Lindsay, Britain's new headman in the U. S., last week filed with the State Department a request to import a large stock of rare wines, vintage champagnes, old whiskies, brandies. U. S. Wets cheered what they took for a change of policy. Fact was that Sir Ronald was simply deciding for himself a question which his predecessor, Sir Esme Howard, had handled with a gesture. The British Embassy has never actually "gone dry." Toward the end of his term Sir Esme Howard, perceiving there was enough to last until he should be gone, merely announced that...
...next engagement of the Walker act is on April 9, when Mayor Walker will, for some reason, be headman at the ceremonious unveiling of the Stone Mountain Memorial at Atlanta, Ga., to the armies of the Confederacy.-TIME, March...
...large attendance at Surrey's first day of gypsy school suggested that the encampment chosen was one of several Romany bands usually to be found in Kent, Devonshire, Surrey, Berkshire or Buckinghamshire from late March on, after wintering on the Continent or in London. One pater familias or headman, Tombino, is typical of his fellows. Tombino raises a strain of horses that command top prices at any county fair in the kingdom. He moves his caravan from one fair to the next, establishing coconut-shies at each as a sideline. His children, numbering six† are sent, immediately upon...