Word: rex
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Succeeding his father "Astor", who nightly wandered through the silent corridors of Fogg Museum, "Rex" took over the duties of watchdog of the Arts in a simple but dignified ceremony Monday night...
...Rex", like his father owned by the President and Fellows, is the only dog in the world owned by a corporation. He is well bred as well as aristocratic, having been trained to refrain from biting any intruders found in his nightly patrol...
...although George Bernard Shaw hastily wrote last week for William Randolph Hearst a strongly pro-Mrs. Simpson and pro-Edward VIII playlet in which he flung at Prime Minister Baldwin the ultimate Irish insult of tagging him "Prime Minister Goldwyn." But the drama the world wanted to see, Edvardus Rex, was acting and writing itself hour by hour as the amazing facts erupted. They formed not a stately royal play such as Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina* but a breathless cinema of swift pace and jazz tempo...
...Queen Mary, who was nicknamed by playfellows at school as "The Scent Bottle." In last week's unreeling of an Empire crisis, sleek, scented Kent was most of the time an orchidaceous extra waiting on the lot while British bigwigs performed the stellar roles in Edvardus Rex. Scenes from this cinema of official facts and carefully checked dispatches...
...Secretary Wallace were making a tour of Resettlement projects-a tour originally planned to stir Mr. Wallace's enthusiasm for them. Before it began, however, it had turned into a farewell tour. When newshawks caught up with them at Memphis, Henry Wallace loyally declared: "You know. Rex has been one of the most vigorous fighters for the capitalistic system that I know of. ... Men of Tugwell's courage and insight are rare. We shall all regret that he is no longer in Government...