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...Imperial Victoria will swish and the unctuous tones of Disraeli will whisper in the council chambers as Britain girds its loins to once again resume the "white man's burden." Gouty lords and Cockney navvies, with tongue in ruddy British cheek and sturdy British finger crossed, will cheer King and Empire as the British Army arrives in Addis Ababa to save the black man from himself and to collect the taxes. England will self-sacrificingly exploit the natural resources of the country and grant the natives splendid positions paying as high...
...Presidential limousine full of Roosevelts. From her place of honor she stared back at the holiday crowd while Grandfather Frank-lin lighted Washington's National Community Christmas Tree, but she paid more attention to the flashlights of photographers than she did to grandpaternal words of holiday cheer...
Newly restored King George II continued to show himself last week a monarch of resource and boldness. When he first exhibited himself on a balcony of the Royal Palace to be cheered by the multitude, the multitude failed to cheer, seemed sulky. At this His Majesty, with an air of feeling perfectly at ease, extracted the royal handkerchief and blew the royal nose, a homely sound which drew first grins, then cheers. Two weeks ago the King, having forced erstwhile Dictator General George Kondylis to resign as Premier, was challenged. Newsorgans controlled by Panayoti Tsaldaris, whose henchmen hold a majority...
Giving its second concert within three nights, the Harvard Instrumental Club will continue to spread Christmas cheer, at the Agawam Hunt Club, Providence, tomorrow evening...
...half his life Composer Jean Sibelius has been treated like a national hero in his native Finland. The Finnish Government has long subsidized him so that he could give all his time to writing music. Fellow Finns cheer him whenever he appears in public, never let his birthday pass without doing him some honor. Partly because his best works seem at first forbidding, partly because he has chosen to spend most of his life quietly at home, Sibelius has been slow to gain a worldwide recognition. This week when the big, bald Finn was 70, that recognition...