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...next development seemed further to foreshadow Tuan in the role of Regent. With the full consent of the Government, the knowledge of all foreign legations, and on the advice of his English tutor, young Hsuan Tung, whilom "Boy Emperor" of China, sought asylum in the Japanese Legation. The report was that he might cross to Japan, there to wait out of harm's way until Tuan had reduced his realm to order for him. Meanwhile, the young Manchu talked of how good it seemed to be freed of official duties, of how he would like...
...when one opened to the story in the December Woman's Home Companion, however, one found "a business man" to be whilom Editor Bruce Barton, with the workings of whose mind one was already familiar. An earnest, sincere man, Editor Barton has a huge following...
Telling of the Versailles Peace Conference whilom Editor Steed declared: "Clemenceau flatly accused Lloyd George of repeated inaccuracies in his statements. Lloyd George rose and seized Clemenceau by the collar, demanding an apology...
...York World: "Fee! Fi! Fo! Fum! List to the Numbing Tale of the Tiger and the Welshman as Spun by Wickham Steed. ... No One Else Ever Heard of It." While they awaited the book, U. S. newspaper readers reflected that, of all journalists at the Peace Conference, whilom Editor Steed was probably as near the inner machinery as any; that of all temperaments assembled at Versailles, those of Lloyd George and "Tiger" Clemenceau were perhaps the fieriest; that if such a quarrel had come to pass, it must certainly have been hushed up; that of all reputations, Mr. Steed...
...London, the Seventh Anniversary was celebrated with Bolshevik pomp at Chesham House, whilom abode of the Imperial Russian Embassy, by Charge d'Affaires and Madame Christian G. Rakovsky...