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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some persons, however, may overlook Harvard's possible influence on Browder and Lewis. The survival of England's aristocracy is due, in large measure, to its ability to absorb the popular leaders who come up from below. Although they would probably not admit it, both Mr. Browder and Mr. Lewis may have a more compassionate regard for the old order after their Harvard visits. The Boston Herald June...
...stood up to announce that the salaries of Members of Parliament will be raised from ?400 to ?600 ($2,000 to $3,000) a year. From the benches on both sides came shattering applause. For his very last "last word" before retiring from House harness, "the most popular Prime Minister since Balfour" could scarcely have picked a more felicitous topic...
...favorite fat little pony Jock at Sandringham (see cut). Worried questions about Jock were among the last words King George ever spoke. It was Jock, with stirrups reversed, who followed his master's coffin from Sandringham House to the railway station. Sure to become one of the most popular of all Artist Munnings' color plates, the portrait of George & Jock was not Artist Munnings' only contribution to the Academy. There was one of his usual, impeccable race horse scenes, and almost identical to George & Jock in composition was a study called The Polish Rider, showing a longhaired...
Another Academy specialty, the large historical canvas, has lived on in England while similar work in France, Austria and Germany has long gathered dust on museum and palace walls. Most popular of this type was The Founding of Australia by Algernon Talmadge (see cut). It shows Australia Explorer Capt. Arthur Phillip and his officers, spick & span in white breeches and cocked hats, drinking a toast to the Union Jack under the eucalyptus trees at Sydney Cove. Only different in theme was a painstakingly accurate view of one of Britain's great football crowds, Chelsea v. Arsenal at Stamford Bridge...
Tears mixed with ink often result in a sticky substance resembling treacle. Though the formula would not be recognized by a chemist, it is well known to some popular writers. And there is nothing so pleasing to some tastes as a good mouthful of treacle. Gene Stratton Porter was an expert at this mixture; so is A. S. M. Hutchinson. In Sorrel and Son Warwick Deeping had the formula just about right, but last week his latest novel showed that even specialists in sad-gladness cannot always hit the proper ratio, that too many sobs spoil the ink. Only...