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Last week cables announced that "after a decent interval" Edward of Wales, "favorite grandson of Alexandra," will indeed move across the way from the House of York to that of Marlborough. The ravens, well pleased at this confirmation of their prophecy, amiably recalled the history of these famed residences...
...undisclosed. Mr. Faulkner states unblushingly that the majority of immigrants to America "belonged to the class at home who were economically beaten or who were persecuted for religious or political beliefs." New England was not full of psalm singing and blue laws but was a very decent place to live; Virginia had fifty small farmers for every plantation owner of the traditional type. In this impolite fashion, Mr. Faulkner gives a picture of colonial America which makes one think that, in view of what it came from, the United States has done miraculously well by itself...
...illumines the choice of the Illinois gentleman with the light of a more legitimate understanding of his duty. To him dignity is not developed by dollars, nor character increased by acclaim. He prefers his degree to the applause of the fight fans of football and forgets glamor in a decent respect for his college...
...gentleman in Egypt. Helen will have nothing of such an alibi. She tells her neighbors that she is not repentant of "the bitter bridal bed where the fair mischief lay by Paris' side." It was inevitable. In fact Menelaus was to blame. Helen says: "I think a decent man could lose his wife without bringing...
Sirs: I wish to protest and protest strongly against such antics on the part of the Prince of Wales as you describe in your issue of Nov. 2. No decent young man dresses himself up in girl's clothes and appears in a farce called The Bathroom Door. There are enough scatter-brained girls who call themselves " vamps" without the Prince making a "Royal Vamp" of himself. I visited England last year and want to say that a great many people in London know him for what he is. Too many Americans think he is a sweet, babyfaced, "innocent...