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Pursued by panting newsfolk of normal size who could barely keep up with his towering strides, the fifth son of the 26th Earl of Crawford loped around to a side door of the British Foreign Office last week...
...Victoria & Albert were Edward of Wales and Prince George. During four days of inspection and naval pageantry climaxed by the "battle." human interest was supplied by "Bill." a slavering, snoring bulldog mascot of the Nelson. Because the King patted Bill on the head while inspecting the Nelson, British newsfolk reported with elaborate jocularity that "the crew feel their Bill has been knighted and now call him 'Sir William Bulldog...
...boned Finance Minister, Pierre Etienne Flandin, not only pleased Scot MacDonald by the crystal lucidity of their plans for rescuing Danubia from near bankruptcy but provoked him at a midnight session over Scotch and cigars to roars of midriff mirth which did his morale a world of good. Facing newsfolk just before M. Tardieu dashed back to Paris, dignified Scot MacDonald beamishly confessed, "We did overflow a bit at times. I might say the Danube was in such full flood that it overflowed its banks. In fact, it would be difficult to name any topic of world interest today which...
When U. S. citizens wearied of St. Gandhi, prominent U. S. newsfolk stopped covering India's fight for freedom, but last week famed Karl H. von Wiegand, sagacious Hearstling, cabled: "I have just traveled through India from the extreme southern part to Bombay and Allahabad in the North, more than 1,500 miles. "Talks with members of almost every class of Indians quickly reveal that feeling-even hatred-against the British, is intensifying. The current is steadily running deeper. "British of long residence in India frankly admitted that they fear a big explosion sooner or later. Some even touched...
...Norwegians like. A quaint, possibly significant scrapbook is kept by Their Majesties. She pastes into the section headed We Never Did or Said This newsclippings of that sort. The rest of the scrapbook, much the larger section, bears mute but gracious royal witness to the high average accuracy of newsfolk...