Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...status as a "free, independent and sovereign Kingdom." there are three powers in that ancient country: Britain, the Egyptian King and the overwhelmingly popular Wafd Party. Of these three, any combination of two is possible. Britain and Fuad combined to suppress the Wafd; Britain and the Wafd combined to clip Fuad's autocratic powers; Fuad and the Wafd combined to defy Britain. Last week the death of King Fuad cut short the deliberations of delegations of Britons and Egyptians engaged in drawing up a new Anglo-Egyptian treaty giving Egypt a few new privileges and confirming Britain...
Will your self-correcting service dispose of the following item which I clip from the Manchester Guardian Weekly for Feb. 7, 1936. It concerns, of course, the mysterious stranger in the funeral procession of the late King George...
...Sandringham the Prince of Wales, with news services sending out advance canned dispatches in which he already figured as King Edward VIII, jumped into a car with the Duke of York, drove at a fast clip for Windsor. Technically Windsor is not a "palace" but a "fortress" and, because of this, bulletins on George V's condition were not posted there as they were at Sandringham House and at Buckingham Palace...
...works into the early morning hours at his modest home in Hillsborough about 20 miles from his office. Sometimes he asks businessmen to come out in the morning so that he can talk to them on the way into town. His chauffeur drives his Cadillac at a terrific clip, which is his master's wish. He may not get to his office until 11 a. m. Sometimes he takes a room in the Mark Hopkins hotel, conducts business from bed. His promotion last week was largely a matter of form, for he has long been acknowledged as heir apparent...
...possible conditions, seeds were shipped by airplane to Miami, California, Puerto Rico, Argentina, by fast steamer to Australia. In California alone, 100 Japanese girls were hired to do nothing but pollinate the blossoms. To prevent bees from messing up the experiments with promiscuous pollinations, it was found necessary to clip the petals. In January 1934 Mr. Burpee announced May delivery of seeds for the varicolored, ten-petaled hybrids, a whole growing season ahead of any other breeder...