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Last week, a book called Through Thirty Years appeared in England, written by Henry Wickham Steed, one-time editor of The Times. Foreign correspondents of U. S. journals speedily buried their noses in its pages, seeking some illuminative reminiscence that would justify a cable home. Speedily the correspondents found a jewel...
Telling of the Versailles Peace Conference whilom Editor Steed declared: "Clemenceau flatly accused Lloyd George of repeated inaccuracies in his statements. Lloyd George rose and seized Clemenceau by the collar, demanding an apology...
Headlined The New York World: "Fee! Fi! Fo! Fum! List to the Numbing Tale of the Tiger and the Welshman as Spun by Wickham Steed. ... No One Else Ever Heard of It." While they awaited the book, U. S. newspaper readers reflected that, of all journalists at the Peace Conference, whilom Editor Steed was probably as near the inner machinery as any; that of all temperaments assembled at Versailles, those of Lloyd George and "Tiger" Clemenceau were perhaps the fieriest; that if such a quarrel had come to pass, it must certainly have been hushed up; that of all reputations...
EXPRESSING WILLIE?A modern business man mounts the steed of Self-Expression and there follows a runaway...
After the opening performance, Miss Claire was rather precipitously promoted by certain of the referees to the post of leading U. S. comedienne. Though this seems a stiff jump to take on so slight a steed as Grounds for Divorce, there can be no doubt that what spirit the play developed she supplied. If the comedy had been a champagne cocktail, she would have played the bubbles...