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...mustache that has drooped and wandered where it would for years had been neatly trimmed, sleeked down. The Great Man wore a sack suit which had actually been pressed! His valet hovered in the offing with a hatbox and a suitcase. Out of the box could come a high silk hat, and out of the case a full dress suit. Put these clothes on Briand and- you would have the President-Elect-voilá! It was the valet's great and tragic hour. Afterward Frenchmen cynically said: "Briand's friends all cheered for him- but many voted...
...Greenland last July went a party of 15 youthful English scientists headed by H. G. Watkins, 23, to chart part of a prospective Arctic air route between England and Canada (TIME, July 14). One of the party was Augustine Courtauld, 27, son of rich Tycoon Samuel Augustine Courtauld (artificial silk). He volunteered to remain alone through the winter on the Greenland ice cap to make meteorological observations. According to their agreement, Watkins led a party from the base camp near Angmagsalik in March to relieve Courtauld. They searched in vain for his hut in the snow, finally had to return...
...from Funchal pier with a large white flag flapping from its flagstaff. As it neared the Carvalho Araujo the cabin opened. Out stepped Rt. Rev. Antonio Emmanuele Pereira Ribeiro, Bishop of Funchal, swaying unsteadily. A rope ladder was dropped. Hand over hand, up went His Reverence, his purple silk skirts flapping about his legs, to plead for the cessation of all hostilities, but Commandante Correia locked himself in his cabin...
...appreciation of Insurgent Senator George William Norris. Extract: "Norris does not represent Nebraska politics. He is the personification of a Nebraska protest against the intellectual aloofness of the East. A vote for Norris is cast into the ballot box with all the venom of a snowball thrown at a silk hat. The spirit that puts him over is vindictive, retaliatory. Another Senator might get Federal projects, administrative favor, post offices and pork barrel favor for Nebraska, but the State is contemptuous of these. For nearly two decades Norris has kept Nebraska beyond the pale of Federal favor, but his people...
Critics moving diffidently among the silk hats of the gentry approved Augustus John's state portrait of white-chinned Viscount d'Abernon (Argentine Trade Mission, TIME, Sept. 23, 1929) in the red robes of the Bath, Sir John Lavery's state portrait of mutton-chop-whiskered Lord Lonsdale in the blue robes of the Garter, the ever popular sporting pictures of A. J. Munnings. World wide depression, they noted, had a marked effect in reducing the number of large statues on view...