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...glory. There will doubtless be a number of flag-waving enthusiasts in this country; and perhaps one of them will even climb on a rostrum in Memorial Hall to address an audience of future soldiers. But however noble-spirited his talk, it will not elicit the raucous cheers of olden times. To convince the new generation of the necessity of war, more plausible arguments are needed than the hackneyed formulae which sent the heroes of 1914 to their graves...
...inches high. Smallest member of the hound family, it has the same characteristics as the foxhound: keen scent, melodious voice (higher-pitched than the foxhound's), a fierce determination to make that tackle. Although many U. S. hunters use beagles to track rabbits, the sport of beagling-in olden days "the poor man's foxhunt"-has remained a Tory pastime ever since the first beagle pack was imported from England...
...rival Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, whose tremendous popularity, along with Wang's lack of it, has undoubtedly been the main incentive for the would-be-puppet's campaign. Himself a Cantonese, Wang subtly appealed to his fellow Southerners on the grounds that South China, in olden times, was independent. What took the sting out of his subtlety was the fact that South China, in not-so-olden times, was the birthplace of National Savior Sun Yat-sen and the cradle of New China...
...Charles Cruft, who began his career serving behind the counter of a dog-biscuit shop. Ever since Queen Vic toria entered her collie and three Pomeranians in 1891, the show has been held ach year in Islington's mammoth old, red brick Royal Agricultural Hall. At its olden Jubilee Show three years ago, 10,650 dogs were entered...
...time is the olden days; the place, an assiduously merrie England. Principal characters are two boys-Kay, a toad of a child, and the Wart, who turns out to be King Arthur. Kay's father, Sir Ector, is a ruddy country gentleman who wants the lads to have a proper "eddication," decides to hire a tutor. By accident the Wart finds just the man-one Merlyn...