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...years out here in the East, have been in contact with Americans all along but I have so far not found one who had the nerve you seem to have. As said above this 30 years have made me pretty well cosmopolitan, but still I am a German and honour my country, and to be sure I have seen many a dirty article but yours is the limit. Why throw dirt on our Prime Minister Hitler, why run down Hindenburg, both men who have done much more than you will ever be able to. Your whole writing shows that...
...wrapping paper and proudly cabled it to London. The wrapping paper manufacturers puzzled over the cable, then wrote and mailed a cautious British letter. The esteemed favour of the 15th inst. was received, but might they enquire how the wrapping paper was to be wrapped? They had the honour to remain. Sirs, y'r obedient & humble serv'ts. By the time this letter reached Canada, the customers, who had received no cabled reply to their order, were already wrapping parcels with U. S. wrapping paper, ordered by telephone, promptly shipped and delivered...
...babe to honour...
...Dancers (Fox). When Phillips Holmes finds his boyhood sweetheart (Lois Moran) teaching school in a small French town, she confesses to him that she has not lived up to the inscription she once wrote on her photograph: "I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more." Holmes, however, has been true to her. A fair thematic idea knits up this otherwise silly and incoherent picture. All is based on an old story of Sir Gerald Du Maurier. All is distinctly British in tone and notable only for the first appearance in talking pictures of Mrs. Patrick...
...Treasury. Asked to succeed the late great George Meredith as president of the Society of Authors, he wrote : "I must . . . perform the disagree able duty of acting upon my own conviction of what is for the Society's good, and tell you that I feel compelled to decline the honour." A few weeks later he accepted...