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Unmarked by pomp and speechmaking on the part of the railroads, and almost unnoticed by the traveling public, was the 50th anniversary last week of that major convenience. Standard Time. Only a hand-ful of rheumy oldtime railroaders could recall the nightmare of conflicting clocks & watches that was banished forever one November...
...Vagabond enjoys the sound and fury, the pomp and circumstances. It would be a poor thing to worship a god who never caused an earthquake, who never created a monkey...
...year-old Gaekwar notes that he "receives a salute of 21 guns." When he visited the World's Fair last week, to his and its immense delight he got his salute. Fair President Rufus Dawes had soldiers drawn up along Michigan Avenue and marched with the Gaekwar in pomp befitting the Fair's first visiting chief-of- state...
...brand new automobile-the only pomp requested by simple Pilot Post-pilot & party sped to Manhattan, police sirens shrilling through the late city crowds. General Italo Balbo, who had been caught in a traffic jam while trying to reach the field, waved from his car as they shot by. At the Hotel Roosevelt a physician found Post's condition good, noted that his hand was steady as a rock...
...write the life of a plain man with all the pomp & circumstance of a full-dress biography might seem a satirical idea; in unkinder hands than Phyllis Bentley's such a book might be a reductio ad absurdum of both subject and method. But Authoress Bentley's intentions and accomplishment are honorably serious. Though she sets the stage with such reverent care that the reader expects a notable if not tycoonish hero, the curtain has not been up long before alert spectators realize that the spectacle will be unspectacular. Authoress Bentley succeeds, however, in transfiguring her average...