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Considering where the King of Siam spends most of his time, namely, on the other side of the world, there is reason on the Premier's side of the quarrel. But the Old Etonian is a stickler. When the Singapore flash reached England, His Majesty reluctantly drove up from Surrey, released an elaborate statement to the London Press. All most Englishmen cared to read was this: ''The King has intimated his desire to abdicate to the Government at Bangkok. No definite documents of any kind have yet been signed by the King...
...renewal has cast into oblivion a foolish quarrel over superficial matters; it is up to the present undergraduate body to make sure that the present bond of good feeling is further strengthened and cemented together...
Significant is the fact that one group of 700 company employees had no quarrel with the policy of the A and P, as they claimed that they were being fairly treated and that wages and working conditions were satisfactory. At the same time, another group of employees, led by union leaders, announced that "a closed shop was essential to protect the interest of employees." Measures adopted by this latter group, included the blockade of trucks under contract to deliver A and P goods, the agitation against employees, who desired to return to their jobs, some picketing and violence with...
...warms my heart to read such manifestations of benign simplicity, such expression of hopeful belief in our modern world or professed disillusionment. Just the day before yesterday, another communicant, writing from Idaho, in a criticism of one of Professor Frankfurter recent speeches, expressed the same sentiment. I have no quarrel with such beauties of thought and soul--I myself dare even hope that perhaps one day that world of Truth and Virtue, and absolute honesty of institutions shall be my abode. But I thought Truth (whatever we know about it) only existed in heaven. In fact, I am convinced...
Though Frieda and Lawrence quarreled they never separated for long. She shared his nomad existence 18 years, in Europe, Ceylon, Australia, the U. S., was with him in his last days on the Riviera. "I enjoyed being poor and I didn't want to play a role in the world." The thing she missed most was her children, whom she saw only secretly, at bitterly long intervals. The Lawrences quarreled not only with each other but with most of their friends. Their friendship with Katherine Mansfield and Middleton Murry "was the only spontaneous and jolly" one they...