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...swank Guards' Club, along Pall Mall and at every officers' mess in the British Empire, there was but one consuming topic of conversation last week. The new young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden might not be doing much at the moment (see col. 3), but the new young War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper had just signed the most drastic reorganization order the British Army has ever received. In effect this Mayfair scion, whose famed wife Lady Diana Manners played The Virgin in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, ordered: "No more cavalry...
...building a fire had started among old files. Unable to attack it properly through the one door of the room, firemen chopped holes through the eight-inch concrete ceiling, poured in water which cascaded down to the lower floors, ruined the paneling in Postmaster General Farley's swank reception room. Washington firefighters, some 40 of whom were overcome by smoke, were bitter because they have to put out fires in Federal buildings
...Just as tea dumped in Boston harbor by our sturdy ancestors proclaimed the revolt against unjust taxes, so pluck can free the present generation from unfair taxation of one group of citizens for the benefit of another." In Washington Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, wife of the socialite Representative from swank Long Island, declared she would plant potatoes on the lawn in front of her house at 1801 F Street, where "Secretary Wallace will be sure to see them...
...addition to picturing Labor's river winding its slow but ever broadening way toward Socialism-in-our-Time, The Illustrated London News mapped for swank Mayfair the evolution of London mentality which now makes the spread of Labor over the capital look like the efforts of a moppet playing with an inkdropper. Between 1931 and 1935 the municipal Government of London has passed into the control of Socialists led by Herbert Morrison. Since these Socialists are as British in their way as Conservative Stanley Baldwin they see no reason why at the same meeting there should not be both...
Oldest and biggest of the swank preparatory schools affiliated with the Episcopal Church is St. Paul's at Concord, N. H. Haughtily independent, St. Paul's recognizes no traditional rival, takes part in no sports with other schools. Yet its fame rests more upon the hockey players it sends to Harvard, Yale and Princeton than upon its scholarship. Its academic aim has been stated by Arthur Stanwood Pier, its official historian, as "teaching boys to think like other people."* Over this rugged, if not particularly intellectual, school presides as rector and headmaster the Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury...