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...stoutly repeated Mr. Harman, "and as the sovereign of Lundy, I coined puffins and half-puffins as I have a right to do!" Counsel for Mr. Harmun argued that his 1,150-acre-island, 12 mi. off the north coast of Devon, is "not only outside the British Realm but outside the rest of the world.'' They declared that it was chiefly this circumstance which attracted Mr. Harman to Lundy, caused him to buy the island in 1925 for the round sum of ?10,000 ($50,000). Since then, self-styled Sovereign Harman has successfully exacted rent from...
Sixty years ago last week (while the White House was inhabited by Ulysses Simpson Grant) one Paul von Hindenburg, 23, Prussian lieutenant, cheered himself hoarse in the Palace of Versailles, hailed the first German Emperor, Wilhelm I, hailed Prince Otto von Bismarck's proclamation of the "German Realm," the glorious Deutsches Reich! The Realm or Reich remains-as a republic. Last week the victorious Imperial banners of 1871 were unfurled again in the Reichstag (this time by steel-helmeted Republican troops) and old Paul von Hindenburg, President of the Republic, searched his heart. He is 83. To a microphone...
...States into the Great White Empire. Officers he would name are: President, Herbert Hoover ("on condition that he would always agree with me"); Mayor James John Walker, General Secretary of the White Army; Will Rogers, Master of Ceremonies in the Imperial White Palace. Barbers would become dukes of the realm...
...belch watched anxiously to see whether Her Majesty's investigators would conclude that the "poison fog" which took so many Belgian lives was poisoned by the factories of the Meuse valley. Seldom before in recent history has a Queen so embarrassed the Cabinet of her husband's realm...
...considerations, discussions and essays in the realm of beautiful letters concerning the house plan as it obtains at Harvard have had the common characteristic of viewing the entire affair from the purely academic angle--that is to say, as it affects the serious student, who goes to college for purposes other than social, recreational or commercial. And, as every one knows who has ever had any contact with American undergraduates, this serious student whose major pre-occupation for four years is the pursuit of curricular ambitions is a very rare fellow, indeed. Of course, this is not the burden...