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There was no other issue last week to which the London Times could conceivably have found it necessary to refer in such fashion, and the Cabinet was reported contemplating, as the most practicable means of thwarting the match, proceedings by the Attorney General to see whether Mrs. Simpson can be legally blocked from obtaining her final decree of divorce April 27, thus forcing her in England to remain the wife of Mr. Simpson. Sir Claud Schuster, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor was reported to have advised the Cabinet that legally the King cannot marry Mrs. Simpson without the Government...
Though expansive quantities are usually the accumulation of months, one unmistakably single mass measured a diameter of one and three-fourths inches. The muncher of such a wad is the sort of fellow Kipling would refer...
...eccentric Bronx schoolmaster and ransom-passer in the Lindbergh case, wrote a letter to the New York Times nominating a friend for New York State Boxing Commissioner: "He knows every angle of the game. . . . My opinion is based upon a long and intimate acquaintance. . . . The man to whom I refer is Mr. John Harrison Dempsey, called by the sporting fraternity by the familiar name of Jack Dempsey." Added the Times's editor: "All right, Doctor, but the name is William Harrison Dempsey." Restaurateur Dempsey was on his way to Miami, to lend his name and presence to another saloon...
...while the senior divisional papers cannot rightly be given back, as they form a closed chapter in the scholastic curriculum, it is up to the University to see to it that all papers which lead up to the last judgement shall be made available for those who want to refer to them...
Oxford has also its girls: "Brains on wheels," as some Oxonians refer to them. But this is hardly fair. The girls of Oxford have really much more than brains and a bicycle: There's always their hockey. And I for one have seen some mighty fine and enthusiastic players. It is true that some seem to find some sort of carry-over from hockey to the dance floor; but a man with a little coaching in following can get on tolerably well and the girl never knows the difference. If that doesn't work I find a definite understanding...