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...occasion was a banquet at Toronto to honor Lieutenant Governor Harry Cockshutt of Ontario, shortly to retire. White-bosomed and sleek-shouldered. Premier Ferguson rose to address the King Emperor, personified by His Majesty's Lieutenant Governor. "Canadians," said Mr. Ferguson, "consider outworn the system which now denies to them the right of accepting fitting honors from His Majesty the King. . . . While Canadian politicians should unquestionably still be barred from accepting such honors, there are many other Canadians who deserve and should receive what only the Sovereign can bestow. . . . I hope that the Dominion Government will soon withdraw...
...foremost examples of what is going on. Unnamed new colleges are being cut out of whole cloth; and the old educational world is watching in order to see whether the pattern will tell us anything. For we are all convinced that some of the old fashions are outworn...
...Archie's grandfather; just so all Inches, by birth, tradition, inheritance, were white wings. Alas! that the horse must go the way of all flesh, that the inhuman horseless carriage should sweep up yesterday's honored white wings, dump them in the rubbish can of outworn traditions. Mary (Winifred Lenihan), faithful to her father's revolutionary gas-buggy, loves and will always love Archie, the Quixotic, uniformed champion of the horse. Of course, when Mary shoots Josie, the last horse, there is nothing more for Archie to be loyal to, so he turns with a sigh...
Everyone now reads so much that writers perforce take it for granted that nobody will think while he is reading. And without thought, by writer and reader alike, allegorical writing is impossible. Allegory is the only class of writing in which the imitation of outworn literary styles can justify imposing itself upon the readers' attention. There ought to be, in the Advocate articles on Merlin and on the Dragon, a neatly concealed but none the less obvious reference to some Harvard problem or situation in which everyone hereabouts is interested. Mr. Demos does this in a more direct...
Trained in the old school of Tsaral diplomacy, M. Georg Tchitcherin, now Foreign Minister to the Soviet Union, represents a late and almost perfect flowering of the outworn cult of secret diplomacy. He still employs all its stock phrases, catch-subterfuges which seldom deceive a rabbit-for example, he never "goes on a mission" but "travels for his health." Yet when cornered and pressed for categorical answers to specific questions he speaks with the adroit tongue of a sibyl or a Machiavelli. Last week he arrived at Paris as expected (TIME, Dec. 7), and the Olympian game of interrogating...