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...Most certainly," he replied, " and you may say to him that in a spirit of reciprocity I shall be pleased to call him ' Lord Stephen...
...When Lord Robert Cecil was in America, Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania wrote him a letter on the opium question, addressing him: " My Dear Mr. Cecil." At a recent conference at Geneva of the Opium Commission of the League of Nations the two came face to face for the first time. " Would you like to meet Representative Porter?" some one asked Lord Robert...
...distances, and snatched a brief sleep after a strenuous and brilliant evening. The program of the day gives the center of the stage to 1923. Undergraduates linger only under tolerance, for the responsible function of ushering or the irresponsible one of satisfying an idle curiosity. The assembled graduates may lord it on Thursday to their hearts content, and in their respective reunions today outside Cambridge. But when they gather this afternoon it will be as mere onlookers at the initiation of a new class to their federated midst...
...undying gratitude of the people. But he has done more. He has clothed his conception in dramatic form and provided dramatis personae to act the piece. Cecil Rhodes who lured young Americans to England for propaganda purposes is the chief villain, supported in the minor roles by Andrew Carnegie, Lord Northcliffe, Sir Gilbert Parker, Lady Astor, Elihu Root, Owen Wister, Dr. Neilson of Smith, the Sulgrave Institute, the English Speaking Union, the Pilgrim Society, the Sons of St. George. Probably nothing but his artistic sense of the exigencies of the stage prevented the commissioner from adding the names...
...respectable little London architect wakes up one morning to dis- cover the body of an unknown Israelite, nude except for a pair of gold pince-nez, in his bathtub. Whose body? And who is responsible for its presence there? The police, as usual, bungle the matter, but Lord Peter Wimsey, a delightfully indolent young clubman, assisted by the usual Watson and a splendidly upstage butler named Bunter, at last discovers the solution not only to this problem but others involving much mystery and confusion. The best thing of its kind since The Red House Mystery. MY FRIEND FROM LIMOUSIN...