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...London's Albert Hall last week Son Austen called on an audience of Tory imperialists to vow, in memory of the "first Englishman to see in his mind the British Empire as it is seen today in fact," that "not one yard of territory shall be torn from the Empire." Sir Austen read a telegram of congratulation from King Edward VIII. A portrait of Old Joe 50 ft. high was unveiled and the crowd could not help seeing the striking resemblance to Son Austen on the platform...
Oldsters in Clubland. In gouty circles of extreme Tory diehardism last week elderly Britons were incautiously beginning to vow in their London clubs that "By Gad, Sir, this Rearmament will give us back Old England!" They were cocksure that the proletariat, kept increasingly busy and well paid on munitions orders, will make no trouble and that Imperial Defense will work out in such a way as to squash even those malcontents the Free State Irish by transferring to the west of the British Isles beyond the immediate reach of German air attack enormous new concentrations of Might...
...primitive and ancient peoples and let the concupiscent, the celibate and the sexually miserable beat a path to his study and tell him all. His marriage in 1891 to bubbling Edith M. O. Lees, who died in 1916, made his sage-in-the-study life practicable. Their only marriage vow was not to deceive one another. They confidently maintained separate homes, and she did not disturb him in his investigations...
...having not seen him since he was governor of New York. Also I hear this day talk of some unofficial merry-making in his honor: some broadcasting business (that he will speak for the committee I am not sure); some bell playing; even fireworks. But of this I now vow to wash my hands and leave it all to Julian Coolidge's Bellboys and more subtle wits. For well I remember last year how sore at my heart I was to have a little putt putt thrust in my face and asked to " 'fess up" when I knew nothing more...
...host of the people do not feel shame; yea and more also if ought they do but take timbrels in their hands and line the place wherein the vow is to be done. Wherefore do they judge o'er all the land the men, and which the larger; to which the longer arm, and which the mightier in his youth. Forgive them for they know not what they...