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...flush of rage last week, when the Conservative Government of Premier Stanley Baldwin introduced a long-threatened bill to curtail debate and force a vote within 16 days on the second reading of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 9).* This procedure, cloture, is so seldom employed in England that the Laborites puffed and huffed with indignation. Their leader, John Robert Clynes,† rose dark with wrath, declaring that the Opposition was being "insulted by the audacity of the Government" in proposing to cut short debate upon "a bill which is not only one of the worst...
Queen Mary was what she is almost from girlhood: a woman of queenly dignity which never unbends yet never repels, and possessed of an invaluable countenance which seldom smiles yet is always graciously reassuring. She does not dominate the King, as is vulgarly supposed; for his genuinely strong will and active judgment are at variance with the softened expression lent to his face by a silky beard...
Through a lifetime of Russian metamorphoses Baron Wrangel passes to the day when twelve "comrades" were apprehended torturing a lady of the aristocracy by tying against her person an iron pot containing a live, gnawing rat. Seldom has the complete inversion of Russia's civilization been more vividly sketched than by the Baron, who remained in Russia until 1920. Of all Russians he appears to despise most Alexander Kerensky (né Kirbitz), calls him the "Grand Eunuch of the Revolution . . . puppet [of the Soviet leaders] . . . seemed more like a . . . girl . . . selling herself to the first person she meets...
...eight innings yesterday afternoon the Lampoon baseball team displayed a clever brand of diamond strategy--exceptionaly clever, in fact, for seldom in its baseball history has the Mt. Auburn establishment of humorous note produced a nine which could so long hold in check the slugging forces of the CRIMSON. For eight innings Bob Lampoon, diminutive southpaw, ruled supreme from the eminence of the mound which has witnessed so many of his former disastrous attempts to practice the mysterious art of twirling a horse hide pellet. For eight innings CRIMSON runners could make no progress on the sodden base paths...
Young, debonair Britons of democratic leanings, such as Edward of Wales, have seldom been popular in Spain, a country where the aristocracy is, and is expected to be, punctilious. Therefore, last week, as Edward of Wales continued his sojourn with the Spanish Royal Family (TIME, May 9), Spanish journalists of the more independent stamp bestowed on him a nickname: El Principe de Jazz? the Jazz Prince. To make the nickname stick they chronicled against H.R.H. the following high social misdemeanors...