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...edition in which Writer Brown was reported as having been arrested by order of the State Department and sent to jail for 30 days on bread & water. One copy was handed to the Iranian Legation, the other taken around by Constantine Brown to the State Department from which Homeric mirth soon resounded. Waggish Editor Noyes of the Star pushed matters one notch farther by having someone call up Brown and tell him excitedly that by mistake the special Iran edition was being run off as the regular edition, a hoax on Brown which evoked even more mirth. An Englishwoman...
Resumed at once was the impenetrable mask of words behind which John Buchan lives. Tendered a congratulatory dinner in London by 600 Canadians and the Dominion High Commissioner, he flattered them directly for half an hour, then provoked them to pleased mirth by this witty hyperbole: "In one sense Canada is Britain's senior. Constitutionally, all the 'autonomous units' of the Empire are to-day equal sovereign States under one king. They are 'Dominions' and of these Dominions, Canada is the oldest and Britain the youngest...
...implications of this proviso struck the German Reichstag so forcibly that Deputies clutched their quaking midriffs and the whole chamber roared with Homeric laughter until tears of mirth glistened on many a cheek. Banging down his gavel President Göring boomed: "No Jew can insult Germany...
...with the Nobel Peace Prize, Vanity Fair also showed J. P. Morgan making a stump speech against Capitalism, Admiral Byrd wintering in tropical Tahiti, William Randolph Hearst as Ambassador to Soviet Russia and Huey Long in a friar's robe entering a monastery. To crack this page of mirth wide open it was captioned "NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE. Five highly unlikely historical situations by one who is sick of the same old headlines...
Next the motorcade sped 32 miles to Duxford where Queen Mary was waiting to have luncheon. In high good humor King George cracked jokes and roared with mirth during the meal. Thus two hours were whiled away, every minute being needed to get 182 fighting ships into the air ready for the "Fly Past" over Duxford. This was made at the unusually high altitude for an air force review of 1,000 feet "because the king is greatly affected by noise." So were 150,000 spectators. Even at 1,000 feet the menacing clatter of the air armada filled Britons...