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...Because the Guild had the happy idea of reviving its onetime success by A. A. Milne, it is enjoying the sight of the Garrick Theatre† filled to capacity for the first time this year. Into the home of an all-English country gentleman, George Marden (Dudley Digges), hobbles quaint Mr. Pirn (Erskine Sanford), his memory given to wandering off on appealing but unreliable excursions of second childhood. In an inadvertent moment he mentions the vagaries of one Jacob Tellsworthy, who, unknown to Mr. Pirn, is Mrs. Marden's first husband, believed in all good faith to be irreproachably...
Pius XI says his daily mass in the bedroom where his predecessor Benedict XV died in 1922. (This is the quaint custom of respect which Popes have long paid their immediate predecessors?to pray in the death chamber.) Soon after he attends a second early mass. Then to his private apartments for breakfast of coffee with milk, bread, butter...
When I closed the pages in a mood of reminiscence and looked again at the cover rather wistfully, I though. Yes, we can make fun of children's stories, but this doesn't seen; to rub the bloom off. We like them all the more for their artlessness, their quaint little ways. And how harmoniously the editors worked together to create their Wonder-Book and to maintain throughout their tone of genial fantasy...
...delay lengthened, grew in a few seconds to seem interminable. . . . Black Rod. That which delayed George V in opening Parliament was the absence of the plebeian members of the House of Commons. In another part of the Palace of Westminster they were dallying overlong with a ceremony of quaint historic significance. They were rebuffing the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. . . . Lieutenant General Sir William Pulteney, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., K.C.M. B., B.D.S.O., receives $1,000 per annum ($4,860) for acting as the Black Rod, and carrying it: a massive staff of ebony surmounted by a golden lion. Last week...
...eager solons are not content to wait for trouble to appear but plan to nip it in the budnay, in the very seed, before it is visible to the untrained eye. Thus Senator Beaver of Oklahoma would make it illegal in that state to "circulate" biscuits--apparently a quaint native custom--of less than three inches in diameter and one inch in thickness. "The society biscuit," he warns grimly, "in the curse...