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Edward, 33, eldest of the four brothers, and George, 25, the youngest, were accompanied by a plump gentleman in morning clothes and a high silk topper?Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who had brought with him his wife. (TIME, March 14). Because Canadians have been visited four times by Edward of Wales, but never before by a British Prime Minister in office, interest continued last week in Stanley Baldwin...
...usually stop and chat with them. He broke his rule, however, for the sake of a stranger encountered on the steps of the Rapid City High School, temporary White House office. The stranger wore a hat wider even than the President's ten-gallon fishing headgear. In his silk shirt and flowing neckerchief clashed vivid colors. He wore high-heeled, embossed riding boots bearing the letters "put" in white just below each knee. Not even Hollywood could have produced a cowboy attired in more complete accordance with the traditions of his calling...
...lake, hundreds of Chinese officers and diplomats prostrated themselves thrice. A Chinese band struck up the national anthem-to Western ears shrill and squealing. At the focus of this orgy of homage stood a slim, imperious Chinese, clad from neck to heel in a gorgeous, shimmering, blue silk Field Marshal's uniform of his own invention. This personage was the War Lord of Manchuria and North China, the great Chang Tso-lin. Japan has supported his Manchurian régime. Great Britain is believed to have poured not a little gold into his coffers. Last week he was engaged...
...London that the Soviet Trade Union of Artists in Moscow, had just voted to deprive him of his cherished, official Russian title, "The People's Artist." Newsgatherers sought put gigantic Singer Chaliapin in his dressing room, found him sitting hunched and disconsolate in a purple and cream silk dressing gown and red leather slippers. As everyone knows, M. Chaliapin's English is quaint. Correspondents reproduced it as follows: "I was born and always will be, a 'people's' artist. I sing for everyone. Politics, I understand nothing, absolutely. I never was what you call capitalist...
...every head but one rested a flat-topped, tasseled cap; all but one pair of legs marched swathed in the folds of the academic gown. The lone exception was Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, who, with silk hat, striped trousers, frock coat and pale blue, pearl-studded tie headed the parade.* He was to deliver the Commencement Address to the 1927 Class of Washington University...