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With everything from a cocktail to a new Scotch tart being named for Lady Alice Scott last week, the austere, technical voice of The Motor rose above the twitter and gush of London society paragraphists. Going to press too early to catch the death of Lady Alice's father which makes it necessary to transform her marriage this week to George V's third son from a public function at Westminster Abbey into a quiet, private affair. The Motor took a knowing Rolls-Royce-eye-view of the royal nuptials thus...
Such acts, natural in a country where a robber caught red-handed has his hand hacked off immediately, the Emperor did not seek to justify last week. He merely announced that he could not "conscientiously" promise that his savages would behave otherwise. All of a twitter, the International Red Cross Committee in Geneva said that this would be the first war since the Red Cross was founded 71 years ago in which the combatants did not at least promise to be on their best behavior...
...League of Nations which must arrive independently at its own decision. Last week that awful MUST had the Council thoroughly scared. In Geneva politicians jibbered about how they might be held to blame for a war, should they decide about the Saar unwisely or too late. All of a twitter, Sir John Simon, highest-priced lawyer in the British Empire and His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, begged his Council colleagues to hand the Saar instantly to Germany should the plebiscite turn out to be the Nazi landslide Sir John expected. In a terrific state...
...girls," pirates, and stokers, as well as the following: Willie Porter R. S. Hewlett '33 Bob Holden J. H. Leatherbee '33 Shirley W. F. Draper '35 Professor Crawfish Robert Breckenridge '34 Cyprian (professor's young son) J. T. Dennison '34 Bertram Bannister (pirate chief) A. M. Jones, Jr. '35 Twitter W. A. Munroe '33 Aunt Caroline Albert Pratt '33 Bartender Stuart Scott '33 Steward W. B. Cudahy...
...place, preached many a Sunday sermon to a congregation of some 25 people, most of them old ladies. He soon changed that by inviting Parsees, Chinese, Persians to conduct their rituals in St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie. The Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York began to twitter. In 1923 there was a famed dance service, celebrating the feast of St. Nicholas, which was erroneously reported in the Press as a "bare-leg, bare-hip affair." Actually it was performed by a troupe of respectable, well-clad Barnard girls. But Bishop William Thomas Manning refused to countenance Dr. Guthrie...