Word: stickler
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Considering where the King of Siam spends most of his time, namely, on the other side of the world, there is reason on the Premier's side of the quarrel. But the Old Etonian is a stickler. When the Singapore flash reached England, His Majesty reluctantly drove up from Surrey, released an elaborate statement to the London Press. All most Englishmen cared to read was this: ''The King has intimated his desire to abdicate to the Government at Bangkok. No definite documents of any kind have yet been signed by the King...
...stickler for old-fashioned British Justice is Mr. Justice William Carlos Ives. Though unable to reverse the jury verdict convicting Premier Brownlee as an enticer and seducer, Justice Ives proceeded last week to dismiss the jury awards of $10,000 damages to Miss MacMillan and $5,000 to her father, a locomotive engineer for Canadian National Railways...
More than half of the regular customers, we are told, are girls but most of these have hardly more than passed the third lesson. Poise seems to be a stickler. And since the poise is still lacking most of them go alone on their excursions. A few of the more advanced pupils go in pairs and some even extend their trips to weekends on the Cape...
...reverberating echoes about political Washington last week. The slammer was President Hoover; the slammee was a bristly-haired, thick-necked Tennessee lawyer named Col. Horace Mann.* A skillful organizer and patronage broker for the G. O. P., South, Col. Mann used to play poker with President Harding, no stickler in politics. He did useful jobs for Calvin Coolidge in 1924. An ardent Hooverizer, he turned up in Kansas City in 1928 with enough Negro delegates on his list to ensure the Beaverman's nomination on the first ballot. During the campaign he took $25.000 from the Republican National Committee...
...making bodies, once engaged a Harvard man whose job was to probe into Western Union's letter files all over the country to see that good English was being used by the company. Schooled at Heidelberg, versed in German, French and Greek. Contact Man Lienau is still a stickler for proper English usage. Now he had apparently been pained beyond endurance, for he wrote: "Somewhere there cumbers this fair earth with his loathsome presence a man who for the common good should have been destroyed in early childhood. He is the originator of the hideous vulgarism of using...