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Every British schoolboy learns that in 1348 the Countess of Salisbury embarrassingly shed a garter on a crowded, royal ballroom floor. Courtiers tittered but gallant Edward III saved the situation by putting the thing on his left leg, proclaiming, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Evil be to him who evil thinks). Thus was inaugurated the Most Noble Order of the Garter, most exalted in the British Knighthood. It is one of two Orders which admit women...
Familiar to almost every schoolboy is the Arabian Nights tale of the deadly lodestone island which drew the iron nails and bolts from passing ships, causing them to be wrecked on its jagged cliffs. Last week one G. H. Gray. Lloyd's agent at Bridlington, England, declared that he had discovered a modern parallel to this myth...
...question or scold them. Even their slang-in which a policeman is a "rozzer," a pal is addressed as "china"- is more quaint than sinister. Thus the great million-dollar fur robbery which climaxes Dr. Clitterhouse's efficient operations is likely to remind U. S. spectators of a schoolboy raid on the jam closet. Somehow that does not impair the show's excitement...
Many a U. S. schoolboy knows that Kipling looked like a big-browed, jut-jawed Groucho Marx; but few people anywhere would recognize a picture of his wife. Kipling married a Vermont girl, Caroline Balestier, but readers of Something of Myself are led to infer that she could hardly be considered American. (Kipling does not mention his brother-in-law, Wolcott Balestier, who collaborated with him on the Naulahka, and with whom he quarreled.) The U. S. where he spent four years after his marriage, he mentions often, always in the same tone. "Reporters came from papers in Boston which...
Obispo v. Obispo Maximo, Sixty years ago Dennis Dougherty ("Dinny" to his parents, Patrick and Bridget, Irish immigrants) was a schoolboy of grimy Girardville, Pa. who spent his vacations as a breaker boy in the coal mines. At 14 he passed the entrance examinations for St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook near Philadelphia. Told he was too young to enter, he spent two years in a Jesuit College in Montreal, returned to St. Charles, was admitted to the same class he would have joined in the first place. In 1885 Dennis Dougherty went to Rome's North American College...