Word: warrantize
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...them. Finally you are asked, and up the chimney you go. Emerging sooty but elated you wash up, present yourself at the Lord Chamberlain's office and state the facts. If the Lord Chamberlain pleases he may appoint you, as he has appointed G. J. Kite, "By Royal Warrant Chimney Sweeper to His Majesty the King...
This is all very well until what lawyers call "the demise of the Crown." As the old King dies your royal warrant expires and the new King may or may not let you sweep his chimneys. Thus purveyors to the Crown are always more or less on edge. Last week they felt they ought to do something about the royal jubilee next spring, did something curious...
Thirty-six-year-old C. Bersford Marshall is an architect with a reputation for doing swank Mayfair apartments in the modern taste. In his meteoric career Architect Marshall has designed only four houses. Last week the Royal Warrant Holders' Association commissioned him to do his fifth house as a jubilee present for King George. Reminded that His Majesty is in possession of a score of palaces and castles plus houses galore, the Royal Warrant Holders' somewhat foggy spokesman conjectured that George V will probably give the house, located at Burhill in Surrey, to "some subject who has performed...
...since early in December, were explained yesterday by a University official. "We feel," he said, "that since the University has little space at its disposal, we would not be justified in assigning so large a building as Hemenway Gymnasium to the commuters, for their demands are not sufficient to warrant their occupying the whole space." He also said that the running expenses of Hemenway Gymnasium would be heavier than the non-residents could pay. There is a possibility that the old gym may be given to the Freshmen for the squash courts, thus relieving the pressure at Linden Street...
...Sunbury, Pa., four hunters simultaneously shot at and hit the same deer In Atlanta, Ga., a game warden served a warrant on Col. W. B. Hutchinson, member of the Governor's staff, for having illegally shot five does. Col. Hutchinson claimed he had not noticed the does in the heavy underbrush, had fired at a buck, killing buck and does with one 12-pellet shotgun shell. Said he: "This has worried me for almost a month. It was purely an accident but it is far better that a judge should decide. ... I have seen a miracle...