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...rambling, soot-stained St. James's Palace the final plenary session began at 10 a. m. Small grate fires accented the palace chill. Shivering and snuffling, the delegates climbed the crimson-carpeted grand stair. They were grimly resolved to utter 33 prepared orations if it took all day and all night, which it very nearly...
...same frayed sandals that carried St. Gandhi on his illegal salt march through India 19 months ago carried him last week up the crimson-carpeted stair of Buckingham Palace. Flunkies in scarlet & gold bowed the small, unrepentant lawbreaker into the Picture Gallery. There at the head of the receiving line stood George V in striped trousers and morning coat, Queen Mary in a shimmering silver tea gown and Edward of Wales (who had flown down especially from Liverpool) dressed like his father. The Lord Cham berlain, the Earl of Cromer, advanced through a horde of 500 tea guests, some...
...trained so that when I went to the pond and rang a bell I carried in my pocket they would hop out of the water and arrange themselves according to size. The small frog would always be at the left end of the line and they would be like stair-steps with No. 20 at my right. One morning I failed to find but one rose chafer. I knew my pets would be disappointed. I rang my bell and they hopped out of the water and arranged themselves. Then I gave the little frog the only bug I had found...
Descending the broad hall stair...
Today the Free Press is Michigan's dominant morning paper (second to the Scripps owned evening News in circulation), is strongly Republican, tinged with the liberal views of its publisher Edward D. ("Ed") Stair. A "clean, home paper," it suggests somewhat the New York Herald Tribune; and like the latter it boasts an exceptionally able women's editor?Mary Humphrey. (Herald Tribune has Mrs. William Brown Meloney.) Some of the Free Press' following may be accounted for by its Chicago Tribune comic features. This situation may be affected by the Tribune's recent acquisition of the Macfadden tabloid Detroit Daily...