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...with a distinguished War record. He is now director of three great London papers (Evening Standard, Daily Express, Sunday Express) and a part-time gossip columnist who has learned to overcome the British public's innate awe of a title by writing with elaborate earthiness. Fortnight ago His Lordship turned his attention to the menace of aerial bombardment during the next...
...lipstick stains on glasses. He blinded the thieves with an old-fashioned puff of snuff. And by turning out the lights he tricked them into his cellar when they appeared at his manse in search of the loot he took from them. With the culprits incarcerated below stairs, His Lordship has time to disentangle a pair of lovers from the plot, send them off toward the altar before the curtain falls on this amusing dramatic puffball...
...Bishop then formally condemned "our economic system," laid before the Assembly a report on economic and social conditions with special reference to the Dole. "I had meetings with the leading economists of the City and you never saw such men for disagreeing!" declared His Lordship with vehemence. "I learned more from the unemployed themselves than from all the economists in the world...
...Vancouver, B. C. He tried to get an eastbound train, found Canadian railways buried by snowslides, torn by washouts. Vastly annoyed, Lord Milne, wife & daughter took a train which veered south across the U. S. border, stopped at Seattle. Shortly newshawks came, bothered them with questions. Snapped His Lordship: "Yes, this is the first time I've been in Seattle. We wouldn't be here now if we could help...
...Perhaps I may answer by saying that the application might have been made against the Kitchen Committee-if there is one-of that august tribunal to which your Lordship belongs-the House of Lords. (Laughter...