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...proposed repeal of the Baby Volstead Act in Massachusetts, he is correct. If by "marshalled arguments more skilfully" he means that Boston College was able to get away without giving specific, comprehensive answers to pertinent questions, asked by the Harvard speakers, he is correct. If "serious and dignified" refer to demeanor, probably he is correct. I believe that the diction of the Boston College speakers was better. Undoubtedly, they excelled in oratory. The Boston College speakers appeared to be giving memorized speeches, the Harvard speakers were speaking extemporaneously...
Sirs: I am pained to observe that in your current issue (TIME, Feb. 10) you refer to the "Welsh Guards...
...Rumania one may refer to Prince Nicholas, weak-chinned younger son of Dowager Queen Marie, as a? "bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend," but it will cost one just four months in jail. Some weeks ago Speed-Fiend Nicholas crashed into a taxicab and in pettish rage" kicked the chauffeur severely under the stomach so that the unfortunate man had to be rushed to the city hospital. One Mircea Damian wrote to the local newspapers in protest, not only calling Prince Nicholas bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend, but adding...
...Darden to whom you refer and I am enclosing for your information a copy of an order from the District Court of Tarrant County, Texas, issued in 1924 giving me the right to continue the use of my name for business purposes, although married to a man of another name...
...Refer TIME (Sept. 2, 1929) quote "From what I know I would say that his [Prince Mohammed Ali of Egypt] main interests are confined to breeding the best horses in the world. His stud in Egypt and Wentworth's stud in England are the only two horse breeding establishments in the world where one can find an unpolluted strain of the blood etc." "TIME will tell...