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Visit a British country family one of these bright spring weekends and at teatime you are likely to see such a scene as this: on the tennis-court are the Hon. Diana and the Hon. Molly, daughters of your host Lord Wilchester, playing a stiff set of tennis with the vicar of the parish and his young curate. If there is a cathedral in the neighborhood you will probably see its dean among the guests, and drinking tea with old Lady Wilchester (who is exceedingly deaf) will be a prebendary. Lord Wilchester, who owns the vicar's living...
...painting of Charles Evans Hughes Hon. '10 Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court has been added to the collection of Supreme Court judges' portraits in the south lecture room of Langdell Hall, Harvard Law School...
Just the least bit paunchy because of a bandage drawn tightly across his little abdomen, Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden hobbled gallantly into the House of Commons on his two rubber-tipped canes last week, leaned for support against the dark oak despatch box table and made in 62 minutes flat his Budget Speech, normally an affair of two hours or more...
...jumped Ramsay, assisted Philip to his seat, patted him on the back. "I feel better," glowed the Chancellor, "than before I began to speak." Up jumped the newly appointed Conservative fiscal spokesman, Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain (TIME, April 13). Amid Laborite roars of "Where's Churchill?" Conservative Chamberlain congratulated Mr. Snowden warmly, said stiffly that he would reply to the Chancellor's speech at a later date. Grinning, beaming, "Winnie" Churchill (ousted in favor of Mr. Chamberlain) shouldered his way out of the House, pursed his lips at shouts of "Speech, speech...
...Teetotalers but musical, the Snowdens recently entertained Feodor Chaliapin who, they had heard, insists upon champagne. They gave him sparkling soft cider in champagne glasses. Many British Budget speeches, including those of Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, have been made on whiskey & soda...