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...Furneaux and Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India: "As a member of the fashionably rowdy London Kit-Cat Club I assumedly viewed with alarm the publicity which it received last week, due to the shocking behavior of a Lord. Driven by one 'Teddy Oysters,' valiant old-school London cabby, the young Earl of Northesk led a 'hansom cab race' of nine other peers-about-town through Piccadilly to the very door of the Kit-Cat. . . . The police, unable to ignore the place after this escapade, prepared to raid it. Discovering in the nick...
...even held rights "equally sacred" while Postmaster General under President Harding, when critics were legion. "He's little," said one, "but he's loud." He was also efficient, astounded and vexed old-school politicos by making appointments on a merit basis. Many prophesied that Mr. Hays would, within two years, reinvigorate the postal service so shabby under war-administration. Others foretold that soon the mails would be wrecked. People augured, argued, raged. Mr. Hays went into the movies, became the $150,000 a year president of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America...
Died. John Temple Graves, 68, famed journalist, "Silver-Tongued Orator from Dixie," onetime (1907-19) editorial and feature writer for the Hearst newspapers, old-school Democrat, ardent protagonist of the South's causes; in Washington, D. C, of a complication of diseases...
...course in the world." After he won the U. S. championship in 1916, and six other big events the same year, Dario Resta had occupied a niche similar to those accorded Barney Oldfield, Ralph Mulford, Ralph De Palma, Eddie Rickenbacker, Harry Grant, Wilcox, Vail and perhaps the Chevrolets-all old-school racers. He was a spectacular driver, daring and popular. He held many records, won the Vanderbilt Cup race twice running (1915 and 1916). He used to drive Peugeots, usually blue...
...there such a thing as ether, as the old-school physicists assert and Einstein denies? If so, does the ether fill the universe, absolutely at rest and permeating freely through all material bodies, or does the earth, as it revolves upon its axis, drag the ether with...