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...seriously the Czarist web has enveloped Yale is apparent from the idealistic blood-oath taken by each of the members "testifying to his resolution of chastity and obedience until a Romanoff sits again on the Russian throne." The consequences of such a promise in any average American community, or even to New York debutantes, is greater than the Dies Committee itself could imagine. Of all the great oaths in history, none have gone so far. Even the Ten Commandments included only "obedience." What means the revolutionists will use to impose "chastity" is beyond the wildest imagination. Already they seem...
...campaigns in the North. In 1810 the weakness of Sweden, together with the sudden death of the Swedish Crown Prince, emboldened a Stockholm Court clique to propose that one of Napoleon's marshals be sounded out as to whether he would accept election as heir to the Swedish throne...
...years later Gustaf V came to the Throne, but refused to be crowned and Sweden was spared the expense of a Coronation. On State occasions the crown rests on a settee beside the Throne. Most historians agree that the 32 years of His Majesty's reign constitute the period of "Modern Sweden." In 1909 a severe financial crisis was followed by a general strike in Sweden, but this stopped just short of revolution and since then the people have increasingly been Kingsmen...
...modern war were only a little more like sport, Tennist Gustaf and his sterling Swedes would sleep easier of nights. Last month the Riksdag at Stockholm voted a belated 46,000,000 for defense measures and King Gustaf in his Speech from the Throne bravely sounded this realistic note...
...Whiteside, Kaufman & Hart hilariously held the mirror up to ill-nature. Crusty, crotchety, mischiefmaking, selfish, their renowned invalid badgers all comers in epigrammatic Billingsgate. Every combat, to him, is a Blitzkrieg. Now & then, as on Christmas Eve, his gushing soul drips treacle; but the real Whiteside, from his wheelchair throne, commandeers the house, forbids his hosts to use the telephone, tries to smash his secretary's love affair, bewitches the servants, bedevils his nurse. Snaps he to "Miss Bedpan": "My great-aunt Jennifer . . . lived to be 102 and when she was three days dead she looked better than...