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...hard and cleverly on the wind and has a reputation as a windjammer, one who would "set a circus-tent on deck in a blow if he could find a pole to put it on." To the brain busy behind his square, high forehead, prodding out through his pince-nez, the U. S. looks as the course signals go up on the committee boat in answer to a southwest September wind and the two sloops put over the line, from Brenton's Reef to sea, from sea to Cuttyhunk...
...Frelinghuysen (this year a Wet candidate for the Senate). Mr. Jameson was the largest individual contributor ($172,800) to the Hoover campaign (TIME, April 28). Squarejawed, tightlipped, with a big dimple in his chin, Mr. Jameson has grey-fringed black hair, a close-cropped black mustache, wears sparkling pince-nez before placid grey eyes. Spruce and good looking, he refused to be photographed because, he said, he was "not good looking enough." The tale he told the committee concerned how he had played what politicians call "the fat cat" (cash provider) in the South to defeat Smith...
...Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, much of the strenuous work of dancing round and round for eleven weeks, much of the weaving in and out of diplomatic ribbons to make the Naval Treaty, has been done by Mr. Morrow, always keen, wise and cheerful behind his twinkly pince-nez...
Came a hurricane of cheers, boos, whistles and the thunderclap banging of desks. Purple behind his pince nez, Prime Minister Tardieu shook his fist, shouted: "You have no right to say that!" Prudently President of the Chamber Fernand Bouisson clapped his silk hat on his head, stalked from the room. Chunky M. Herriot hopped down from the tribune, started down the stairway that faces the section where sit deputies of the right (Monarchist) wing. Instantly they were on their feet, rushed menacingly towards him. Then up rose Minister of War Andre Maginot, six-feet-seven and broad in proportion...
...overpraised by the Atlantic Monthly as "the kindliest spirit in English letters since Lamb." Born in Barbados, he was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, taught archi- tecture, became Secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects, in 1907 became a fulltime novelist. Schoolmasterly in appearance, pince-nez-ed, Author Locke likes dogs, children. He is married, has one adopted daughter. Fortnight ago Author Locke was seriously ill in his villa on the Riviera, his great & good friend Author E. Phillips Oppenheim at the bedside. Other books: The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, The Beloved Vagabond, Septimus, Simon...