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...wives have nothing to worry their silly heads about. The four children talk a good deal about how "shy-making" are their parents' stodginess and lack of imagination. Charles Battle (A. E. Matthews) is a stockbroker in The City. Alfred Granger, a barrister, is a hearty, roast-beef-of-Old-England sort of fellow...
...climbers. Captain N. E. Odell, survivor of a tragic, ineffectual attempt up Everest in 1924 (TIME, July 14, 1924), last week objected "that if a mountain is worth climbing at all, it is worth climbing without these adventitious aids, or with at least as few as possible." This roast-beefy sporting attitude vexed Dr. Raymond Greene who just climbed Mt. Kamet. Cried he angrily: "If oxygen will help us to reach a summit, we are not justified in adding to the roll of those who have already died on Everest...
...contrary opinion are most of His Majesty's subjects. They hold the British Empire "greatest." Recently Scot Mac-Donald was called "traitor" by the precious-precocious son of Conservative Winston Churchill (TIME, Feb. 23). In Britain's coming electoral campaign Conservative candidates & professional patriots will roast J. R. M. for his generous, reckless major burble...
...Lesser in her hierarchy were "prophets" and "apostles." They bred fowl; dug for themselves a "Sea of Gethsemane"; prayed to a vast, crudely carved Jesus, who was black because the Scriptures did not say that he was not black. Awesome was the Deity, a towering figure the color of roast potatoes, made of clay and burlap...
...Down with roast beef and pudding in England!" the manifesto began. "And down with sauerkraut in Germany-the most abominable of all inventions...