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...Green Dragon--Home-cooked food. Pleasant atmosphere...
...wife Princess Alice: "I always have the greatest difficulty in getting her away from the window of an art dealer's shop. She remains there with her nose glued to the glass rather like a child looking into a tuck shop." ¶To the surprise of Welshmen, the dragon passant, emblematic beast of Wales, was seen to have vanished last week along with the three "Prince of Wales" feathers from the arms of the Duchy of Cornwall, as new emblems designed by the College of Arms were submitted for the approval of King Edward...
...reasons for dropping the dragon and feathers, while not set forth by the College of Arms, were assumed to have something to do with the fact that there is no Prince of Wales. The immense revenues which previously went to the Prince of Wales from the Duchy of Cornwall now appertain to His Majesty, although when he first came to the Throne experts disputed weightily whether he retained the title Duke of Cornwall. It has also been arranged that military groups designated hitherto as "The Prince of Wales' Own" retain that designation and their bands continue to play their...
...outdone, the Harvard Club of Shanghai produced a marble dragon which, suitably inscribed with anniversary sentiments, stood last week outside the new open-air Tercentenary Theatre in the Harvard Yard...
Probably as much as can be done on paper along this line he has done. It is strongly conducive to the right way of thinking on the subject of war but of course, as always when you announce that you are out to slay a dragon, there is the question--"How well have you slain it?" A book--a serious book even--is inevitably rather futile in combating such a tremendous problem, because the thing just can't be done so easily Milne's book is the cream of the anti-war arguments thus far in circulation, however, much better...