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...done much to earn himself the honor. He has been lavish with gifts to the British Museum and the Tate Gallery. When young British artists accused him of unfriendliness to modern art Sir Joseph, one of the world's great traffickers in antiquities, handsomely turned the other cheek by purchasing the works of modern British and U. S. painters, writing a letter to then Prime Minister Baldwin and publishing a book which called present...
...coffee after a six-day fast and sent a note to friends at another table, "Sorry to have disturbed you but I have just landed. Michael R." Talking fast in his baa-baa Oxford accent, with the manner of a man born with a gold spoon in his cheek, he began a new chapter of the famed Gerguson-Romanoff legend...
...following men have been appointed to the inter-House basketball committee: A. B. Gardiner '33, Adams House; D. B. Cheek '34, Dunster House; R. L. Kimbrough '33, Eliot House; W. C. Powell '34, Kirkland House; William McNett '33, Leverett House; J. B. Howard '33, Lowell House; and J. L. Finan '33, Winthrop House...
...Jewelers Exchange Inc. and a generous Democrat, brought to the station three pretty girls with baskets of roses which they sprinkled under the Mayor's trim little feet. From the hooraying throng an elderly woman wriggled through the police lines and planted a loud kiss on the Walker cheek. "Attaboy, Jimmy! You showed 'em Jimmy! We're with you, Jimmy!" was again the welcoming cry. But inside the Executive Chamber at Albany where the Mayor of New York was on trial for his official life, there had been no cheers, no applause, no bands, no roses...
Because Americans, Englishmen, Germans, Dutchmen, Swedes, Lithuanians, Poles, Danes, Armenians, Serbians, Greeks, Estonians, Syrians, Letts, Icelanders, Norwegians and especially the Japanese think it is effeminate, many a modern Frenchman has abandoned the ancient & honorable Gallic custom of greeting friends with a resounding kiss on the cheek or jaw. So widespread has become the custom of shaking hands in France that last week the august L Académic de Médecine was asked for an opinion. Weightily the Academic considered, then over the voluble opposition of a youthful minority delivered these decisions: 1) the country man's hands...