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...occasion was a banquet at Toronto to honor Lieutenant Governor Harry Cockshutt of Ontario, shortly to retire. White-bosomed and sleek-shouldered. Premier Ferguson rose to address the King Emperor, personified by His Majesty's Lieutenant Governor. "Canadians," said Mr. Ferguson, "consider outworn the system which now denies to them the right of accepting fitting honors from His Majesty the King. . . . While Canadian politicians should unquestionably still be barred from accepting such honors, there are many other Canadians who deserve and should receive what only the Sovereign can bestow. . . . I hope that the Dominion Government will soon withdraw...
...gambler, whose olive mien was a little too sleek to inspire trust at once, was enchanted by this garrulous bartender, whose words and wit were of an unusual facility. He liked the combination of heartiness and sly insinuation, and furthermore Tammen was one of those creatures so awe-inspiring to high-livers, a bartender who despised drink. The gambler took a chance and told his own history...
...fluffy lion cub crouched, speed-stunned in Signer Mussolini's lap as the Dictator stepped upon the throttle of his racing car and sped toward Rome. That was in 1923. Provincial admirers had bestowed the beast. As she grew into a sleek young lioness, the Duce, intrigued, named her Italia Bella. He is wont to enter her iron barred cage crooning "Italia Mia, . . ." and only twice has she scratched him (TIME, July 12). Recently her sleek flanks grew pendulous. The Fascist press began exultantly to refer to her as Sultana, Italia, and she brought forth three cubs...
...Excellency, sleek black President Charles D. B. King of Liberia is referred to by President Coolidge as "my great and good friend" (TIME, Feb. 18, 1924). Last week the great and good President had reason to beam with Afric joy. His Congress?composed exclusively of property-owning negroid Africans?has just voted to extend a helping hand to an Akron rubberman...
Editors and publishers of the women's press, (Harper's Bazar, Good Housekeeping, Delineator, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, etc.) bit their nails and stamped their feet. Again they had been done in by Condé* Nast, sleek publisher of Vogue. Especially must it have pained Vogue's glossy rival, Harper's Bazar (a Hearst product), to learn that Mr. Nast, than whose technique for commingling business with social activities nothing smoother was ever evolved, was to be the first lecturer in a course on present-day fashions in the fine arts department...