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Perhaps because he detests gambling, Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich & pious, kept the name of the man he had ''advised" George V to appoint Governor General a dead secret. Last week this darkest of horses romped home a winner, sorely vexed Canadian sweepstakers. Darkest horse: Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough...
...several ways host and guest are alike. Both are rich, portly, pious and conservative. Last May the Canadian Liberal Cabinet (which preceded Conservative Bennett's) greatly obliged the Hoover...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has shown some reluctance in letting Joan Crawford play straight parts. This policy is puzzling because she can hold her own with any of the company's other actresses, not excepting Greta Garbo. She is a salesgirl sent to jail for shoplifting by the falsely pious testimony of her employer. When she gets out she marries her employer's son for revenge. Best shot: Miss Crawford in a white evening wrap...
...John Stuart Mill, though the chief place must be accorded to the great Lipsius, of whom we are told that he composed a work the day he was born, concerning which there is the immortal remark of my Uncle Toby in Tristram Shandy.* There are many instances of pious precocity- such as that of the unhappy little puritan girl who (so Cotton Mather in his Magnolia tells us, and with evident approval) spent eight hours a day in a dark closet weeping and praying for the forgiveness of her sins...
Throughout the week pious workmen, specially purified, were furiously busy building in the Fountain Garden of Chiyoda Castle the pavilion in which Her Majesty the Empress Nagako will be delivered. The pavilion will contain a Waiting Room for His Majesty and Dr. Kirikuro Ikki, Minister of the Court...