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...Quoth indulgent Swedes, tabloidizing Mr. Nobel for U. S. consumption: "He came of a family of inventors and princes of finance. His father, Immanuel Nobel, invented the submarine mine. His brothers, Robert Hjalmar Nobel and Ludvig Immanuel Nobel, founded the naphtha industry at Baku, Russia, one of the most phenomenally successful enterprises of the 19th Century. He himself invented dynamite, and reaped fabulous tribute from the whole world for the secret. The entire family labored incessantly at the invention and manufacture of super-combustibles. So numerous were the explosions and fires which wrecked their laboratories that the Swedish Government forbade...
About the card of the Queen Mother, Alexandra, however, the critics were again at odds. Said one, "How attractive! A beautiful Dutch garden; the garden at Kensington Palace! And Alexandra, of course, loves flowers!" Quoth another, "So far so good. But the motto! Has the Queen Mother no competent advisers in these matters...
...quoth Jacob Epstein, "American-born Polish Jew." Now a man of 45, he has had a stormy career...
...Quoth the Craven, "Not for thee...
...Quoth the Craven...