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...here is another gift, which please deliver to the little Crown Prince [Peter of Jugoslavia]. It is an American baseball, a symbol of everything which spells joy and happiness to the heart of the American boy. It will remind the Crown Prince that little American boys love him and love the boys of Jugoslavia...
...LaFollette, the retired Beveridge), six college presidents and many another Who of Who's Who. Incidentally, he had won for Wabash her fourth national championship in seven years, her second in succession. "If," said Elocution Professor Brigance with pardonable pride, "if there be such a thing as a crown of American oratory, certainly there could be no disputant of Wabash's claim...
Their language is lowest Cockney, guttural and larded with strange terms of the wayside. Their occupations, when pursued, are raising scrubby ponies (they milk the mares and sell the foals to tinkers, small farmers, etc.); working intermittently for the Crown, usually at ditch cleaning or road-making; collecting wild birds' eggs for city oologists. The women go into the towns in rags, carrying their grubby offspring to excite pity and alms from passing motorists. The men, for the most part, loaf about, in and under their wagons...
...Real name, MacMullen. Born 37 years ago in Ulster, he attended Cambridge University, and now serves the British Crown in the Ministry of Labor. One of the quietest Irishmen alive, he is known to few people. Acquaintances have marked him as interesting, keen, observant. Mrs. Mac-Mullen is better known as Actress Mary Sumner...
...University and that of Robert Woods Bliss, U. S. Minister to Sweden- last week had bursts of activity preparatory to one and the same coming event. Minister Bliss straightened out his papers and left Stockholm for Washington. The Yale secretary prepared an announcement, because His Royal Highness, Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden and Duke of Skane, is this month coming to the U. S. to attend the unveiling of a monument to Viking Leif Ericsson* at the Capital. Minister Bliss must help President Coolidge entertain. Yale, which has not had a special convocation since Marshal Foch visited...