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...Government. , -." Lord Chancellor Sankey, in full robe and wig, advanced to the throne and on slightly bended knee presented to George V the King's Speech, written every year by the Cabinet...
After several weeks of probity, the Graphic reverted last week to type in what looked like its final week-end edition. As tailpiece to an affronting chapter in U. S. journalism, on the front of the rotogravure section was the picture of a film actress with a robe slipping from her shoulders and thighs. Beneath her was a caption for a story on an inside page: SEX MYSTERIES REVEALED...
...Rome. Yet there is no attempt to proselyte the audience, to make it feel that devotion to the church is better than the love of a boy and a girl. There is no gratuitous singing of an angel choir to cheer this heartbroken boy in a priest's robe as he goes walking on his way alone...
...Texas. In the Texas Outlook last week appeared his "Interpretation of Texas Week" (March 2-9) in which he said: "During that week nature is waking her sleeping children from their winter sleep, the invigorating breezes are blowing, the flowers are bursting into bloom, the trees are fixing to robe themselves in their glorious garments of green, and the peaceful valleys and hillsides are spreading their blue bonnet carpet...
...undying personality. The great Duke stands there, hand outstretched with its tendril fingers searching the air. There is the thin Castillian face sharpened by the neat goatee and the craggy nose. And there are too, the imperious, mocking eyes. Over this brilliant figure is thrown the red robe of the most enduring and majestic institution that the world has even seen. It is a convass that stands like a ray of sunlight among the darker imperial shadows of Winterhalter and the more obsequious court painters...