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Enthusiastic thousands packed the gallery as five dogs, held worthy of supreme honor, entered the arena. There was Southport Blue Knight, gorgeous collie with flowing coat; Dapple Joe, gaunt, sleek pointer; Morningside Prince, white bull of massive jaw; Little Rajah, mincing Pomeranian; Pinegrade Perfection, waddling Sealyham with luxuriant mustache...
...Christian Century's English correspondent, a regular contributor to the London Times. None knew better than he how busy the "international road," the press, is kept by the pagan deities in question. None knew better how Venus, having maddened or blessed some hot Italian poet, some Indian rajah or swart Turk, makes her swift progress from the harem or a Paris divorce court to U. S. breakfast tables. None knew better how religion might be jostled by Mammon, despatches from an ecumenical council vying for space with the details of a petroleum coup or soap king's testament...
...glass. The touch of her hand frosted the glass, for she was very hot; only a mad woman would imbibe iced liquors at such a time?a mad woman, or a French woman. Onetime King Manuel of Portugal, Grand Duke Michael of Russia, ex-King George of Greece, the Rajah of Pudukkottia, watched the amber glass tilt up and up; the linesmen, the umpires and 4,000 of the smartest women and the richest men in Europe counted her rapid swallows. Nine, ten, eleven. . . The glass was empty. Suzanne Lenglen picked up her racquet, and faced once more the girl...
Last year (TIME, Dec. 15, LAW) Rajah Sir Hari Singh of Kashmir fell foul of his own indiscretion and of a rascally pack of blackmailers. Having surprised him in Paris, at a moment when he was closeted in a hotel room with a certain Mrs. Robinson, they extracted $750,000 of "hush money" and promptly fell quarreling among themselves as to its disposition. In the course of as noxious a law suit as ever stank before an English judge, they introduced all the facts concerning their Oriental victim's indiscretions. And the British Government, "for the highest reasons...
Grove Patterson of The Toledo Blade protested against the indiscriminate publication of details in scandal cases, citing the recent cases of Percy Stickney Grant, the blackmailed rajah, Leonard Kip Rhinelander...