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...circles this week was news that, for the first time, the King of England had ordered a car other than the Daimler invariably used by King Edward VII and King George V. The United Kingdom's motor industry is acutely sensitive to Canadian competition, has not hesitated to sneer in paid advertisements at "the American cars which are so conveniently brought in from Canada" under Empire tariff agreements. At great advertising expense a feeling has been nurtured in the United Kingdom that to buy a Canadian car from beyond the seas is not really to "Buy British." This notion...
Last autumn Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler surveyed the intricacies of modern education, thought of his own simple school days in Elizabeth, N. J., emitted a nostalgic lament: "It has become customary to abuse and sneer at the little red schoolhouse of two generations ago, but if that little red schoolhouse was presided over by a teacher of rich and warm personality ... it was an almost ideal educational instrumentality...
...much to his face. Old enough to be her father, hoary Mr. Lansbury remained seated where Fate had placed him. Next day Viscountess Astor elaborately demonstrated what a lady she is by arriving early, taking her favorite seat, and then as Old George came in, rising with a sneer "to give the gentleman my seat." ¶ Observed with further distaste efforts by Scottish Laborite Jock McGovern to make his stubborn point that members of the Royal Family, considering the size of their private incomes, are paid too much. If a worker is shown by the so-called "means test...
...were to continue quoting from this officially blessed book--it was on the preferred list of the National Socialist library--I could very easily show that the Nazis sneer at the very conception of international competition. A sentence or two will suffico for this purpose--if the foregoing quotations have not already accomplished...
...Nicholas Murray Butler, 73, observed: "Theft, assault, kidnapping, murder, follow each other with tragic frequency. These acts are all done by men and women who have been pupils in our schools and many of them pupils in our colleges as well. . . . It has become customary to abuse and sneer at the little red schoolhouse of two generations ago, but if that little red schoolhouse was presided over by a teacher of rich and warm personality with a genius for impressing himself upon the group of pupils of various ages and stages of advancement which surrounded him, it was an almost...