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...Royal Highness. According to the Sunday Times she will continue to study at home under Miss Crawford and other tutors because "there is the difficulty of choosing a suitable school without causing great jealousy." "Another Queen Elizabeth on the Throne," continued the Sunday Times, "will, in this complex modern world, have to have a deep knowledge of a variety of subjects that are not taught in ordinary girls' schools. . . . Princess Elizabeth will be gently led to the study of constitutional history and the British Constitution, and afterwards she will study economic history and theory. ... As in the case...
...Society Conference in Kansas City, Cleveland's famed Surgeon George Washington Crile told how he & friends killed 220 different animals in Africa last winter to investigate their adrenal glands. Because the lion's adrenals weighed 1/11,,000th of its total weight, Surgeon Crile declared that its "sympathetic complex" made the lion the "most volatile of beasts." Her frizzy hair dyed corn-yellow, her blue eyes fading and weak, Eva Tanguay 58, famed oldtime vaudeville singer (I Don't Care!) was found hobbling around on a crutch in her bleak Hollywood cottage. "Arthritis," she explained to a newshawk...
...talking this week, Leon Blum slashed French tariffs more deeply than has been done in any country since the War and at the same time swept away more than 100 of the even more vexatious import quotas which have long blocked much trade with France. Blum decree was complex and selective, but in general French tariffs were lowered 15% on manufactured articles,17 1/2% on semi-finished goods, and 20%, on raw-stuffs...
Although few U. S. readers are likely to take Co-Op as much more than an ingenious tract, it plainly reveals the source of Sinclair's international reputation. With a gift for simplifying complex political questions, he writes in a field that interests politically-conscious Europeans, and one which few U. S. novelists have touched, Bitterly resenting the neglect of his achievements by serious U. S. critics, Upton Sinclair usually counters by mentioning the wide circulation of his books abroad. The Jungle is the most widely-read U. S. novel since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Oil has been...
...long and complex annals of big-league baseball, most famed recovery was that made by the Boston Braves...