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...Wales, Corgis have been bred for centuries as all-round farm dogs. Lately they have grown fashionable. Eight-year-old Princess Elizabeth has a Corgi which she airs in Hyde Park. At Cruft's show in London, world's biggest, almost 100 Corgis were benched. Two of the three Corgis shown in Manhattan last week were brought from England by Mrs. Lewis Roesler of Great Barrington, Mass. Because one of her specimens had frost-bitten ears, he got third prize, while Mrs. Roesler's Little Madam got first prize Of the six dogs which were judged best...
...namely, in favor of the obvious facts of municipal excellence. For the proficiency of our irrestible and incon-proficiency of our irresistible and inconcessful rebuttal. Rusticity is both Indicrous and lugubrious. In its very quintessence, it is a preposterous species of excoriating emasculation. Horn in commiserative stagnation, bred in plethoric delinquency, luxuriating in obfuscated excruciation, irretrievably floundering in the insidious infiltration of retributive impoverishment and unavoidable degeneration. It at last consummates its lamentable termination in unfathomable and immutable oblivion...
...issues on exhibition proudly display the fact that they were once the property of Lewis Carroll, and contain articles by Andrew Lang and Thomas Hughes, Cambridge's parody on "The Dark Blue," "The Light Green" is next. Its attitude is evident from the names of its "authora": "Alfred Pennysong, Bred Hard, Edward Leary. Algerman Charles Sin-Burn. Thomas Carr Lisle, the late Edgar Allan Toe, Rosina Christetti, and Louisa Caroline...
...future office of her Solicitor General, Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. Officially Mr. Wyzanski is her right-hand man, her invaluable aide who accompanies her on many of her visits to the White House, who represents her in nearly all important labor disputes. Yet she, a New Englander born and bred, recoiled from the idea of sharing her shower with him. Such a layout might have been satisfactory with the Old Deal but not with...
This time Cinderella is called Tamara Todhunter. Convent-bred (Mrs. Norris is a Catholic), Tamara goes forth into a wicked world with resolutions about life that do not stand up when a honey-tongued cinemactor comes a-wooing. Trouble arrives with the child of their illicit union, but virtue triumphs when Tamara gets herself an honest-to-goodness husband named George who is willing to be a father by proxy...