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...hidden in closets and behind chairs. A large electric automobile from Mamma and Papa and a bicycle from Grandmamma were hard to conceal, but it took 20 minutes of scrabbling to uncover a gold-headed riding crop from His Majesty, "Uncle David." Later, Princess Elizabeth used the crop to thump the fat sides of her favorite white pony, Peggy. In the afternoon there was a children's party in the tiny playhouse, gift of the people of Wales in 1932. Princess Elizabeth made the tea and buttered the toast herself...
...fighters. He broke the ice with a thump, announcing that he would run in the Ohio primaries (TIME, Feb. 17). As an attempt to force a fight on Candidates Knox or Landon, it was a failure. Both declined to enter Ohio after his announcement. He was left facing a favorite son. highly respectable Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late Chief Justice, shrewdly picked by Ohio's Boss Walter Folger Brown to head the regular Republican ticket. With their candidate strongest in the Cleveland-Akron-Youngstown area, Borah managers will consider themselves lucky to win half of Ohio...
...answering the thrusts of unconstitutionality which Republican wheelhorses hurled at the AAA substitute fell to Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who would like some day to sit on the Supreme Court himself. So angry grew the Arkansan in argument with Senator Hastings of Delaware, so violently did he thump his desk, that he broke his inkwell...
...Thump! Thump! and Thump!?the King of Arms knocked on the door of Henry VII's Chapel, musty and magnificent...
...professor adjusted his glasses, cleared his throat, and, without speaking, began to thump through the pages. In a moment he looked...