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...garden wall, so romantically like the dream that he renounces his career, and the high likelihood of the Prime Minister's portfolio, resolved at last to grasp the romance which his youth promised. He returns to London to bring his affairs to a close, and the reader may guess whether success closes in on him again...
Gilbert, Robert or Oswald-Oswald, Robert or Gilbert? For months political observers have played a counting-out game with these names trying to guess who was to succeed Sir Esme Howard as British Ambassador to Washington. Last week came abrupt word from London that neither Oswald, Robert or Gilbert, but Ronald is It. Sir Oswald Mosley, famed Socialist baronet, remained Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir Robert Vansittart, secretary to Prime Minister MacDonald and favorite of the counters-out, was appointed Head of the Foreign Office as Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Professor Gilbert Murray, violent...
...Business has been pretty quiet lately; you know these hour exams cut in quite a lot. But I guess it ought to pick up plenty this week, eh?" It was one of Harvard's best known bootleggers talking, and it seemed as though he had quite...
...Well, I guess I got to be running. Things ought to be getting busier any minute now. Oh, by the way, do you know -- -- who lives over in -- Hall. I thought you did; well just between the four of us, I'll tell you something I heard the other day. I heard he was in the business. I'd like to know if it's so because I'd like to sell to him. I could make him a pretty good proposition. Is there anything in it for you fellows? Say, you could earn your way through college easy...
...afternoon George V was whisked to visit his sister Louise, the Princess Royal, now convalescent from her recent illness, at her snug home in Portman Square. That night he celebrated, went to the theatre for the first time since he fell sick a year ago. Intellectuals who tried to guess what play His Majesty would choose ruled out one, the U. S. musical comedy Rose Marie which ran in London with the persistency of an Abie's Irish Rose and has recently been revived. In past years King George and Queen Mary have seen Rose Marie a total...