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...cold game pie and plenteous musty ale is sometimes offered by Edward of Wales to that small smart set which fore-gathers at his bachelor quarters in York House (a wing of St. James's Palace). Last week this sporting company chuckled as His Royal Highness displayed a cartoon of his own sketching. It showed a plump and ruddy personage, the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the act of presenting his Budget for 1928 to the House of Commons (TIME...
Canada Dry Ginger Ale...
...become more appreciative of Shakespeare. 'The Taming of the Shrew' seemed to us particularly well adapted to modernizing. The original version, one of the most amusing farces of the Elizabethan stage, contained many 'local gags'. All example is the passage in the induction about 'Marian Hocket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot'. Shakespeare, without a doubt, changed 'Wincot' to the name of whatever town he was playing in, and made 'Marian Hocket' some local character. Thus he heightened the farcical element, and this can be best conveyed to an American audience by making it typically American, by modernizing the costumes...
...does much that Mayor Walker leaves undone. He is at his desk before 10 a.m., whereas Mayor Walker seldom appears before noon, if at all. Mr. McKee likes law reports and biographies. *Mayor O'Keefe confessed that he had never seen anyone get so hilarious on ginger ale as did Mayor Walker...
Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc. (for tingling drinks) $2,350,000. Previous year...