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Nonchalance. The comparative nonchalance of other Britons durin the eleventh hour was well shown when the former Labor Premier Macdonald visited the opening of the Royal Academy's summer exhibition, and chatted there amiably with the wife of Conservative Premier Baldwin...
Alexander I, youthful sovereign of the five-year-old kingdom of Jugoslavia,* motored gaily last week through the ominously famed city of Sarajevo. There he saw a chimney sweep-in the Balkans an omen of good luck. Smiling, His Majesty stopped the royal motor, offered the chimney sweep 100 dinars ($1.76) for two straws from his grimy brush. Astonished and suspicious, the chimney sweep refused to sell even one straw. Outraged, the royal chauffeur revealed his master's identity: "Louse of a chimney sweep! Do you defy your King...
Carefully His Majesty enfolded the second straw in his purse. When he returned to the royal castle at Belgrade, he gave it to a lad of three, towheaded, bonny, already a personage. He was Peter Alexander's eldest son, heir to the throne of the Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata, Slovenaea (the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes: Jugoslavia...
...this was the same. But Valentine wore no medieval armor last week in London. He wore instead the uniform of the Royal Air Force. There were laborers in 1926 overalls, and five-pound notes slapped out by Mephistonheles. And in the community festivities men and girls were strangely alike, wore tennis flannels, plus fours and shingled bobs...
...secretary of Yale University and that of Robert Woods Bliss, U. S. Minister to Sweden- last week had bursts of activity preparatory to one and the same coming event. Minister Bliss straightened out his papers and left Stockholm for Washington. The Yale secretary prepared an announcement, because His Royal Highness, Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden and Duke of Skane, is this month coming to the U. S. to attend the unveiling of a monument to Viking Leif Ericsson* at the Capital. Minister Bliss must help President Coolidge entertain. Yale, which has not had a special convocation since Marshal Foch...