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There they were met by an honor guard of boy scouts, by bands, by marchers carrying ten-foot cornstalks. That evening, General Dawes delivered his speech. It dealt with the farm question...
Princess Mary's first son, George Henry Hubert, was born on Feb. 7, 1923. The new baby boy, weighing 8¾ Ibs. was born on the 78th birthday of his paternal grandfather, the Earl of Harewood. It was said that the Princess hoped for a daughter but that the father had expressed the wish that the child might be a son, so that George (who was named after his maternal grandfather, King George) would be provided with a playmate...
...feels kindly toward the author for having written The Tiger in the House Peter Whiffle and The Blind Bow Boy. But this Countess tale levies a supertax on one's patience, so full is it of bad writing mingled with good, of cheap, pink-necktied flatulence cluttered over real understanding...
...plagues and problems of the body-from catching cold to cancer; nor is there any trace of sickroom smirk nor of professional "strut in the way he does it. His style, in fact, is colored with a richness of literary allusion. For instance: "Do you remember Joe, the fat boy at whom Mr. Wardle was always shouting 'Joe! Damn that boy, he's asleep again'? Joe had an overpowering predilection for meat pies and mutton and roast beef. He is a humorous character, in fiction. In real life, he would be Tragedy personified, because...
...RINEHART "Do you remember Joe, the fat boy...