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...indefensible and scandalous Third Degree, accused police inspectors of collusion and prevarication, and expressed the opinion that Inspector Collins, who grilled Miss Savidge, had deliberately twisted her replies in a misleading manner for purposes of police record. . . . A most unfortunate impression was created when a Laborite asked "Does corruption exist at Scotland Yard?" and Sir William Joynson-Hicks triumphantly and almost airily replied: "I think not. People tell me stories of that sort from time to time, but they won't hold water...
...people realize how difficult it is for a young woman to win her way, her living, on Broadway, even when she is gifted artistically. Broadway, whether in opera or musical comedy, and I have sung in both, is so full of promises, but one cannot exist on that...
Opposite as sunny Rome and slate-hued London are the anti-feminist theories of Dictator and Earl. The Roman by sheer ardor would explode the very notion that a "new" or "modern" woman can exist. The Londoner, icily accepting modern woman's existence, defines her function as competition with man, and brands her as a failure at her chosen game...
...collaboration and thanks to the yielding now of one side and now of the other sprang a new spirit of confidence and all that that made possible. Today the Cabinet of Sacred Union is more united than ever. We have only one regret-that the same union does not exist in the corridors of the Chamber. We will continue to govern with whatever majority follows us. We desire it to be as large as possible, but we shall be faithful to those who are faithful to us. We will exclude none but those who exclude themselves." Swayed by the bold...
Arthur Wellesley Peel (1884-95), youngest son of the great Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel. Naughtiest was Charles Shaw Lefevre (1841-57) who delighted to cite precedents which did not exist, and would solemnly intone, according to ritual, that his most outrageous decisions were justified by "the well known practice of the House...