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...French group was Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister, looking tired and bored, more shaggy than ever, his half-closed eyes often gazing at the ceiling. M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, restless, smiling, alert, was in startling contrast to Louis Loucheur, heavy, stolid, inscrutable. Everybody noted, regretted, the absence of jovial, concise, dapper Henry de Jouvenel, recently resigned...
Advice, often unwelcome, is sometimes valuable. Thus, alert newsreaders were last week glad to share the admonitions offered to widow, daughters, grandchildren, in the will of Elbert H. Gary, late U. S. Steel Corp. head...
Unlike Manhattan, which keeps its art respectable by means of the criminal code, London has a personal censor-the Lord Chamberlain. When Potiphar's Wife was announced for London's Globs Theatre last week, the Lord Chamberlain, alert, notified the producers that those invidious passages in the Bible from which the play takes its name must not be incorporated in the dialog. Compliant, the producers deleted the passages, printed them on strips of paper slipped between the program leaves.* Even so, London was shocked at the play. There were purple passages (not Biblical); there was the actress, Jeanne...
Perusers of the Sunday New York Herald Tribune a fortnight ago found in its rotogravure section a portrait that showed an alert, spruce countenance, small but with a precise magnificence in its well-brushed and steel-grey beard. It reminded them of a someone they knew, some face they had often seen before. When they perused the caption, Charles Evans Hughes' prize-winning Schnauzer, with Miss Christine Charles at the Southampton Dog Show, they began to snicker. While it was possible (if unlikely) that famed Charles Evans Hughes had turned dog fancier, it was an inconceivable as well...
...explanation of the unpleasant likeness between photographed dog and alleged master. They surmised (rightly) that a dull Herald Tribune copyreader or proofreader had clumsily elevated a comma after the word Hughes so that it indicated a possessive instead of an appositional phrase. Further they surmised (rightly) that Miss Charles, alert owner of the prize-winning Schnauzer, had given him a name which his appearance richly merited...