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...England that there is danger of neglecting one's work in order to laugh. They are perfectly plain middle class people and as such are charming neighbors. But they have the notion that as someone else has three cars they must have three, and if other folk ride horses and pretend to understand polo they must do the same. In England they would know their place. They would certainly learn not to wear jodpurs when they go to the grocer...
Pugnacious Miguel (punched a general's nose-TIME, March 3) and peaceable Fernando, sons of Spain's late dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, hailed a taxi in Madrid. The cabby recognized them, refused to ride any Primo de Rivera in his cab. Words followed; blows, injuries. A crowd gathered and jeered, police had to go to the rescue...
...keel, stem, and sternpost of wood, a dagger-plate centreboard streamlined and built of teak, plated with bronze. Her hull measurements are within a fraction of an inch the same as Enterprise's; she carries 16 square feet less sail and has a little more displacement. She can ride an English chop on a reach and pull before the wind; what she can do in the slow swells of Newport water remains problematical. She is a modern, but not a strikingly original boat; there are comparatively few tricks in her rigging, few experiments, and it is this that constitutes...
...Harry Augustus Garfield, president of Williams College, and Mrs. Garfield went for their first airplane ride, soared over the Berkshire Hills. Their pilot: Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, a speaker at the Williamstown Institute of Politics...
...condition: if he can seduce Miss Purcell in one month, he is released from his obligation to his uncle. Whereupon, incognito, he engages himself as gigolo to Miss Purcell. But her bold and modern ways conceal inward purity. On the last day of the month they take an airplane ride over San Sebastian. During the ride Mr. Overman finds himself in love with his employer, refrains from attempting her ruin. What complications ensue during the following half hour are satisfactorily cleared up and the audience leaves the theatre happy in the knowledge that Roxy and her young man are soon...