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...Majesty Queen Elizabeth, enthroned in the House of Lords, sat with lowered eyes and attentive mien last week while His Majesty King George notably triumphed over his speech impediment, read off without a single mispronounced word and with few hesitations the Speech from the Throne, thus opened the first Parliament of the new reign. The 18-minute speech, composed as usual by the Cabinet, promised that His Majesty's Government will: press on with Rearmament; speed air raid precautions; inaugurate penal law reforms; regulate the coal mining, electric power, milk and whitefish industries ; combat stock frauds; add judges...
This young man who is Foreign Minister of the Republic of Latvia has the clean-cut mien of an Arrow-Collar illustration. Latvia is just about as remote from Japan, geographically and in every other respect, as possible, and this fact in Geneva became important recently. The Dutch suddenly realized that their delegate was slated to be chairman of a League committee which must examine the aggressions of Japan, and, since The Netherlands East Indies are within easy striking distance of the Japanese Navy, the risk of heading such a committee was deemed too great for Queen Wilhelmina...
Adolf Hitler arrived at the Munich railway station last week boiling mad about some detail of the arrangements which had gone awry, berated a beet-red perspiring Schutzstaffel officer in explosive gutturals, and astonished the easy-going Bavarian populace by his harsh, tense mien. Next minute Der Führer, having saluted II Duce inside the station in the presence of privileged bigwigs, emerged beaming with his guest, while heavy German guns crashed 21 times in salute. Unlike Stalin, who always drives fast in a closed Hispano (see p. 22), Hitler and Mussolini sat side by side in a slowly...
...Teaching is a profession and everyone magnifies his own profession." But he is anxious not to have his book misused for the benefit of young idlers: "The function of the home helper is a rather special one. . . . His task is to slay some lion in the path whose fierce mien is absorbing a dangerous amount of nervous energy. . . . The task of the parent instructor begins when the child is stuck. Never before...
Nowadays there is always plenty of money for His Imperial Majesty the Caliph Abdul Medjid II and almost any sunny day he may be seen strolling with a mien of great dignity along the beach near Nice, attired in swimming trunks only and carrying a large parasol. "I live apart from worldly vanities here in Nice," recently observed the Caliph, whose favorite reading is Anatole France. "I read, I play the piano, I paint. Nice is perhaps the only foreign city which is popular with the Turkish people. You will recall that in the 16th-Century Wars against Charles...