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After his speech the Mahatma admitted that he had just received a large white petticoat from an infuriated Briton with a demand that he "cover his nudity with...
Tariff Grapple. In Europe's onslaught against U. S. tariffs last week Briton Bell also led. Too much of a gentleman to flay by name the country in which he was a guest, Banker Bell politely remarked: ''Tariffs, as I see them, are the intrusion into economic well-being of the cannon and the machine gun, the high explosive, the poison...
...Ambassador's first wife was the daughter of a U. S. Rear Admiral. Young for a diplomat (51), Sir Esmond's first post as Minister was in Mexico (1925-29). When Prime Minister MacDonald recognized the Soviet Government two years ago, he first picked a more prominent Briton as Ambassador, then switched to Sir Esmond at the last minute...
...daybreak off Santa Cruz the Vasco da Gama banged away, first with its eight-inch, then with its six-inch, then with its four-inch gun. Under this lopsided bombardment troops were landed, rebel soldiers fell back on Funchal. No visiting Briton was even pinked. Two days later rebel General Souza Dias surrendered to loyal Commandante Correia...
Rothenstein's Oxford Characters established him as a pencil-portraitist of the first rank, but though he painted nudes, landscapes, Cheapside costers, his lithographer's pencil has always been reserved for the faces of the great and near-great. For a Briton to be the subject of a Rothenstein portrait or a Beerbohm caricature is like membership in the Institut de France to a Frenchman. In 1899 he married Alice Knewstub, a beautiful young lady who played leads opposite Sir Herbert Tree...