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When the Royal babe is born the sex will be officially verified and announced by onetime cotton spinner John Robert Clynes, now Home Secretary in the Labor Government, whose friends were already beginning last week to twit...
Tall though the tales of Fisherman Zane Grey et al. may be, and excellent though the map of Admiral Dewey, the waters off Cape San Lucas were not full of huge, hungry denizens that evening. Mr. Hoover trolled first with a spinner, then with a silver minnow, and watched the launch's wake for the mighty splash of marlin, yellowtail or amberjack. But the splashes that came were comparatively small-a 15-pound dolphin, a 5-pound Spanish mackerel. A third fish, the "biggest one," got away. Beside Mr. Hoover in his launch stood and fished grey-templed Mark...
...this idyllic era of goodwill, the strikers themselves have played model parts. Not a single crime, major or minor, has marred the dignity of their protest. Many a spinner, wearying of charity, has reverted to the occupation of New Bedford's colonial days. Borrowing or building a boat, he has gone fishing, bringing in a catch he could market in the city. Gravely, the strikers' womenfolk gather in the streets to discuss the day's events in a babel of tongues. Never has the U. S. seen such a rebellion...
...first Briton ever to take the Speaker's Chair after having been "in trade" (in business). Modest yet inflexible, he last week retired as a commoner entitled to a pension of £4,000 ($19,440) a year, having risen from the nonentity of a poor cotton spinner. His successor is Speaker the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, son of Baron Southampton, one-time Page of Honor to Queen Victoria, but now called "Mr. Speaker" and ranking as "First Commoner of the Realm...
Grand yarn-spinner though he is, Author Beach never on any account saves a tart twist...