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Referring to the case, Crown Attorney (Prosecutor) Eric Armour said sternly: "One may attack the Christian religion if one does so in decent reasonable language; but publications which in an indecent spirit asperse Christianity or the Scriptures, and do so in a language calculated and tended to shock the feelings and outrage the belief of mankind, are held to be liable to prosecution...
Petticoat government seems to be reaching international proportions. The case of Sir Eric Drummond, permanent secretary of the League of Nations, versus several million ladies illustrates the peaks to which it aspires It seems that Sir Eric., temporarily blind to the perilous consequences of the act, casually dismissed a librarian one morning whose contract had expired. That the sex of the official was feminine does not seem to have had nearly so much weight with the Secretary as with a whole hornet's nest of women's organizations. To them the deed was no less than a defiance...
...overlook the fact that the librarian besides being feminine, was also American. And America, it will be remembered, is not a member of the League. Germany, on the other hand, has just joined and in reward for such good behaviour, richly deserves a plum or two. So argues Sir Eric. But telegrams beseeching and threatening continue to arrive...
...room the faces of the crowd, banked in rows, in the shadow, in the airless heat, watched him without moving. This was an important evening for Willie Hoppe. Boy prodigy, now nearly 40, balkline billiard champion of the world before he had a beard, now challenger to the German, Eric Hagenlacher, he was making a final effort to get his championship. After a run of 23 he failed. Hagenlacher, very pale, began to click his white ivory ball against another white ivory ball and a red ivory ball. He made a run of 283, his best run of the evening...
Concluding with the official hauteur of his potent brother (Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, one-time [1920-24] Ambassador to the U. S.,) Sir Eric Geddes said: "You are aware, gentlemen, that our new air service from England via Egypt to India will be inaugurated on Jan. 1. I have the honor to announce that Sir Samuel Hoare (British Secretary of State for Air) and Lady Maude (Sir Samuel's wife) will travel as passengers on the first of our regularly scheduled flights from Great Britain to India...