Word: performer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britons are justly proud of four young princes who can perform so monotonous a ritual with such constant enthusiasm and éclat. When the Duke of York recently returned from Australia, for example, his bachelor brothers, Edward of Wales, Prince Henry and Prince George were not only on the dock to meet him (see cover), but they carried swords three feet long and wore uniforms in shrewdly calculated contrast...
...this cheerful readiness to provide a feast for every eye that so endears the British Royal Family to Englishmen and partly accounts for the World popularity of the four Windsor boys. Even when only two of them are available for a state function they manage admirably to perform their duty to the public. Thus at Quebec last week, thousands of Canadians were joyous as there descended from the S. S. Empress of Australia: 1) His Royal Highness, Edward of Wales, clad Scottishly in the uniform of a Colonel of the Seaforth Highlanders; and 2) His Royal Highness, Prince George Alexander...
...fair value for his money. He invests largely in the bright promises of clever copywriters, the seductive swing of an alluring slogan, the cumulative effect of millions of advertising dollars. He spends much more than he ought to pay for products that do much less than they claim to perform. "When the technique of advertising is arrayed on the side of the private balance sheet, may the Lord have mercy on the consumer's soul. . . ." Such is the Chase-Schlink thesis. The remedy suggested is simple, though at present largely hypothetical. Let there be established testing bureaus, like...
...Parisian telephone operator, a mother, Mme. Montard had just been put in jail. And how then could she perform her duty to the babe which had nestled at her breast a few hours before? In jail! And what was to become of her four elder children, none as yet in their teens? In jail! And why was Mme. Montard in jail...
...only will Swedish switchboard girls continue to give out the time, but for a charge of 10 ore (2½c), they will perform the following new types of super-service...