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...Taffari, Crown Prince of Ethiopia and virtually Regent, concluded his European visits, started many weeks ago (TIME, May 12). Ascording to newspapers, when the swarthy Prince left Marseilles for his native heath he was "buried under a mountain of gifts." Thirty tons of luggage had he, most of which consisted of gifts ranging from dogs to clocks...
...threatened with death simply because his personality aroused antipathy among persons lacking the least conception of the value of his work-because he is a Jew. "It is no wonder that under such circumstances one whom the whole world has honored turns his back in disgust upon his native heath, repelled by machinations which do not reach above the soles of his shoes. But what a disgrace for Germany, where such things can happen...
...Spazzums" Tricycles, Deferential Dukes The Story. Despite his flat, black, curly beard, which gave him the appearance of an Assyrian bas-relief, Mr. Heath started out in life as headmaster of a typical English parish school at South Barnet. He invested in a tricycle, to facilitate his trips from home to school. And he might have tricycled himself and his numerous family right out of this story, had it not been for his "accident." The tricycle hit a rock one day, gave him a nervous breakdown from which, according to himself, he never recovered. From the day of the accident...
That is, hardly ever. When Mr. Heath gazed majestically around upon the seven daughters with whom, in course of time, he was blessed, he could be seen to expand with the proud air of one who has nobly done his duty...
Almost simultaneously with the English Mr. Bridges arrived the brilliant Bertrand Russell who is said already to have discovered many corruptions on our shores; and to be retiring shortly to his native heath without much investigation. All this is a tremendous aid to Anglo-American amity. Personally, we favor sending our own Robert Bridges to teach the court of St. James that there are human, charming, gentlemanly literary men still left in a somewhat overcrowded profession...