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...walked down the gangplank onto Manhattan Island. He said a good word for Secretary Hughes' offer to participate in a solution of the reparations problem, a good word for his successor ?" Kellogg is the type of man the Britishers like"? and a good word for his black silk knee breeches?" They will be good to play golf in?say at Palm Beach this Winter?for they are not very thick...
...same telegram alleged that Captain Viscarra and his men, wearing red silk badges, would occupy seats in the gallery in Congress and when the session started would lead cheers for General Calles (Presidential candidate), and that, as soon as the Huertistas answered by cheers for Candidate de la Huerta, they would be shot...
Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Labor Senator from Minnesota, naturally does not approve the choice of Frank B. Kellogg, one of his Republican opponents, to be Ambassador to Britain. A reporter suggested to Magnus that Mr. Kellogg, like Colonel Harvey, might take to silk knee breeches, " Magnavox " roared: "Those black pants on Frank Kellogg would sure be a sight for sore eyes...
...when Inez Martin reappeared, as beautiful as ever but much more unhappy, for the bepimpled Todd had been removed, of necessity, to a nearby private sanatorium?and Inez would not desert him, having taken him for better or worse. The old magic closed around Jeffrey like a net of silk. He was fond of Joan? but Inez was, and had been, every- thing he cried for. Yet he could not bear to hurt Joan?and it was only after weeks of unhappiness that he mastered himself at last. Then, at the moment of crisis, he realized that Inez had only...
...Asquith is Britain's Scholar-Statesman. His early schooling was done in London. In 1871 he became a classical scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and subsequently got a " first " in Litterae Humaniores (1874). After that he went in for the Law, joined Lincoln's Inn in 1876 and "took silk " in 1890. His political career started four years earlier. In 1886 he became M. P. for East Fife, a constituency he represented continuously until the general election of 1918, when he was defeated. For two years Mr. Asquith remained out of the House and then came back...