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Critics moving diffidently among the silk hats of the gentry approved Augustus John's state portrait of white-chinned Viscount d'Abernon (Argentine Trade Mission, TIME, Sept. 23, 1929) in the red robes of the Bath, Sir John Lavery's state portrait of mutton-chop-whiskered Lord Lonsdale in the blue robes of the Garter, the ever popular sporting pictures of A. J. Munnings. World wide depression, they noted, had a marked effect in reducing the number of large statues on view...
...Kookaburra* are the financial maneuvers of Premier John Thomas Lang of New South Wales, eccentric Laborite. Weeks ago he proposed to fatten the flabby treasury of his province by issuing "turnip money," i.e. paper money secured not by gold, but by the natural wealth of the country, turnips, mutton, wheat, etc. (TIME, Feb. 23). Dissuaded from this he next proposed that Australia should insist that Great Britain give her as favorable terms of debt settlement as Great Britain had received from the U. S. Last week he went further. On April 1, New South Wales must pay certain bondholders...
Crumped Arthur Brisbane in his Hearst colyum: "The New York World is 'dead as mutton...
With these activities in mind, soothingly counselled the sage Manchester Guardian: "Churchill and his school do not understand the changes that have lately come about in India and Egypt. They think of Kipling's India, but that is as dead as mutton. In its place stands a disorganized, feverish mass of people. . . . determined to manage their own affairs...
Jean Charles Worth-Square velvet fans and leg o' mutton topped satin gloves. Black ermine muffs. Fur hems on jersey skirts. Evening dresses of gold lace...