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After putting this quaint remark thoroughly through its paces, Stanley Baldwin said that in his opinion Abraham Lincoln was "one of the greatest men produced by our race...
Potential travelers to the Riviera who think that they can ask every sort of question about the new route at the French Government's Office du Tourisme, No. 4 East 52nd St., Manhattan, may be piqued to discover that certain quaint and prudent conditions are imposed. In an "authorized and official" French Government release it is stated: "Any legitimate questions regarding travel in France, sent to this bureau in good faith will receive quick attention and reply...
...toms beat ceaseless din as Edward of Wales & Party approached, last week, the stronghold of that quaint, Afrlc potentate, H. H. Daudi Chau, the Kabaka of Buganda, East Africa. Though subservient to Great Britain, the Kabaka exercises many a right and power over his own people. Aloof, he resides within a spacious palace, surrounded by a woven fence of elephant grass, two miles in circumference and 15 feet high...
Came disquieting news last week from the quaint and anomalous neutral principality, republic and bishopate of Andorra...
Meanwhile Spain's Dictator General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera gave quaint testimony to present turbulent conditions in Spain. Said he, "I feel no disquietude. . . . Not more than four per cent of the subjects of His Majesty are disposed to rebellion, so there is no need for apprehension...