Word: scone
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...teatime in Buckingham Palace last week Princess Margaret Rose, 8, was invited in to have a buttered scone with her father, mother and Queen Mother Mary. Proudly she strutted up and down, swinging a cane, wearing her new coronet...
...contrast to the battle scone, a quiet note is expressed at the right by the sleeper awakening. He represents the regenerated race of man. "The World's New Age hath dawned. . . . Earth rises a second time, from the deep sea; it rises clad with green verdure...
...Armand Duval, escape to a cottage in the campagne. An admirable restraint marks the scene in which Armand's father persuades Marguerite to return to Paris, and the final reconciliation in which Armand finds her dying of consumption. The taint of melodrama appears only when, during the famous gambling scone, Armand flings his winnings in the lady's face and stalks from the room. The supporting cast is capable, and the costumes maintain themselves convincingly in the early 19th century tradition...
...title, chosen as a boxoffice catch-penny, is misleading; but no matter, for here is a picture that without clamor, without pretension, attains what "The Crowd" and "Street Scone" sought begging. Humbly and with humor it tells in simple language its story of the tenements, of a wise-guy radio clerk (James Dunn) and the girl (Sally Ellers) who loves him. Knit closely by the interest created in these characters, and sustained throughout by succeeding moments of tension, "Bad Girl" possesses the signal merit of concentration found wanting in the Vidor productions...
...plurality, whereas in 1924 the same seat went to another Conservative by a 9,000 majority. This bad news for Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was nothing, however, compared to that which he soon heard from North Lanarkshire, Scotland, where an immemorially Conservative seat was being fought for by Lord Scone, son of the Earl of Mansfield, a Scottish grand seignieur. Daring Laborites sent against Lord Scone pretty Miss Jenny Lee, 24, daughter of a coal-miner, "a dad who never in all his life earned more than three pounds [$15] a week." As a graduate with highest honors from...