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...what he calls "one hundred and fifty cents." He found it quite easy to get around in Manhattan until he asked for a "paper knife." No one seemed to be able to supply him with what he needed. Finally he was informed that what he wanted was a "paper cutter." He was immediately relieved and carried this ivory implement about with him all day. He has been in town only a week and he has met "everyone," from Irvin Cobb to Gloria Swanson. He is so friendly and so human that it scarcely seems fair to catalog...
Some time ago a British ship, the Marion L. Mosher, was caught by a coast guard cutter trying to land liquor on Long Island, the ship was chased and actual seizure took place outside the three-mile limit. Ambassador Geddes objected and the ship was released on a $20,000 bond, furnished by a surety company, that the Marion L. Mosher would land her cargo of liquor at St. John, New Brunswick. She landed at St. John, but without her cargo. The surety company refused to pay the bond or the ground that the original seizure of the vessel...
Thomas Long, American whaler, cruised along the island in 1867, but its real discovery came in 1881, when the U. S. revenue cutter Corwin landed a search party, built a cairn, raised the American flag, made formal claim to the island in the name...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin: " Because I wore a blue sack suit, primrose-colored waistcoat, shabby soft gray hat and loose gloves to the Eton-Harrow cricket match, Tailor and Cutter pronounced me a ' sartorial weed' - that is, ' suburban.' Lloyd George, the Earl of Balfour and Lord Robert Cecil have been similarly rebuked by this periodical...
...league (of three miles) in the days of sailing ships, when that was considered a sufficient margin of safety to allow for the apprehension of smugglers. There is, therefore, much to be said in favor of its extension, even though the mile of " hot pursuit" allows a revenue cutter to go more than a league from shore to apprehend a bootlegger caught openhanded. But the State Department has apparently taken the sound position that it is not for the United States, alone and of its own initiation, to effect a change in international law, whatever changes there may have been...