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...were the indications that, regardless of how skillfully the Government had handled the matter in Parliament, the Chamberlain Cabinet had not heard the last of the "air-raids precautions scandal." Thousands received gas masks of the wrong size. There were grave doubts whether they would be effective against even mustard gas. Most of the trenches were pathetically shallow and inadequate. There was profiteering in sandbags and shovels...
...chatted for a half-hour with the Crown Prince, invited Crown Princess Louise to Hyde Park for Saturday luncheon. There, although the President's mother wanted to serve country sausages, the President's wife had her way, and the Crown Princess was fed hot dogs dripping with mustard...
Yellow Season: a big canvas painted in a monotone of mustard yellow with twiggy lines here and there, the shape of a pump indicated, some clothes on a line, gradually more lines taking shape as backyard impedimenta, hints of flowers, and finally a perspective of May sunshine up a hill with slashes of blue sky over...
...likes Harvard. He says it has an atmosphere of culture that makes you just want to learn things. He jokes about it, too, for when, in his play, he invents a new mustard gas, he declares that he's going to send it to Cambridge to be approved by Frankfurter. In another of his lines he says, "You know, the dogs in my home town are so high class that the dog-catchers have to be Harvard...
Lloyds Banks, established such trade-names as Colman's Mustard, Huntley & Palmer's Biscuits, Jacob's Biscuits. Three families, the Cadburys, Frys and Rowntrees, made fortunes in the chocolate business. Among delegates in Philadelphia last week were Barrow Cadbury, a fox-bearded little man who was chairman of Cadbury Bros., Ltd. until five years ago, and his wife Geraldine, a Dame of the British Empire who told reporters: "I put 'D' on my cards but I wouldn't like to be called Dame." Energetic Joan Fry of the Bristol chocolate-making family was present...