Word: non
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plays to reach Broadway he starts with an excellent idea. He evidently is bent on making fun of the snobbish folk who bow to royalty. So he spins the plausible tale of a restless adventurer who, for want of a better occupation, created himself a prince of a non-existent buffer state. The kowtowing proceeds until he meets his deserted wife who brings him back to earth. All is well while Mr. Milne is making fun of snobbery, but when he dips into romance he starts unwittingly to make fun of himself...
...traveling nuisance who crashes gates and whose solitary optic is glaucous, lurked by the ringside. Amid such distinguished company he had wished to appear at his best, and, for perhaps the first time in his life, wore a dinner jacket, white gloves, carried a cane. Also, over his non-existent eye, he wore a monocle. The unfortunate thing was that, having scaled the heights of sartorial formality, "One Eye" found that almost all the other gentlemen present were wearing white flannels, dark blue coats...
Canada to Cuba. George W. Haldeman, who in 1927 flew with Ruth Elder from New York almost to Europe, last week took a Bellanca plane at Windsor, Ontario, and flew without stopping to Havana?1,404 miles in 12 hr., 56 min.?the first non-stop flight between Canada and Cuba...
...been pointed out before in these columns that only the privilege of print separates the college editor from his non-journalistic contemporary. But if the oneness of the undergraduate mind is admitted, where is its title to an opinion? It is a common error to suppose that association with a set of circumstances brings the right to judge fitness or unfitness. But nowhere is this belief less true than in an undergraduate body...
Tucked away behind the snow-capped peaks of Asiatic Turkey, the Grand National Assembly at Angora passed a bill ruthlessly expelling from the Government services any official who has or takes a non-Turkish wife...