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...however, cheerful, big-boned William I. Roberts- last of the family to inherit the place - decided to quit the soil. He became a butter & egg salesman, then a partner in a general store, and finally got into the automobile parts business. But he kept on living on the farm. His son, William I. Roberts Jr., grew up, married and brought his bride to the house. His grandson. William I. Roberts III, grew up, married and brought his bride there too. When William I. Roberts IV was born two years ago, four generations were sheltered beneath its old rafters...
...Mahon ... He told me: 'If I had seen this agreement, there would have been no McMahon Act.' " The House rocked in amazement. "Resign!" shouted Laborites. Beefy Laborite M.P. Bessie Braddock bawled: "Why don't you get out?" But Sir Winston just plowed on through the fertile soil of logic...
Meanwhile, there is the ever-present problem of finding nutrient soil in which the deb can flourish. The steady, promising young man of 30-mother's invariable choice for a son-in-law-seldom has time for the social round, so the deb for the most part must frolic with a younger, less stable type, whose main qualifications are strong legs for dancing and a talent for witty sophistication. Since such gay blades are not always reliable, the mothers at the Berkeley were busy last week grading them according to a private code. Those who rated NST (not safe...
Recently, this happy partnership broke down when the French did start looking into one or two Goubert deals. Goubert promptly switched allegiance. "We are indissolubly connected with our brethren of Indian soil," he announced, "and our political separation can no longer be tolerated." Like Big Bill Thompson delivering Cook County, ILL., Goubert got every district in the enclave to rise up in "spontaneous" demonstrations "to free the French-Indian settlements." In one village, Goubert himself unfurled the Indian flag...
...Crooked Atoms. The result, contained in a series of brilliant pamphlets, was to make coherent policy out of the deep distrust which Tories felt for the new Socialism. Rab replanted the sturdy old roots of Toryism in modern soil. The guiding principles of his philosophy were 1) a belief in the divine origin of the human personality, and 2) a faith in Christian ethics. Rab denied the cynical Marxist view of British history as the selfish struggle of classes; he saw it as a long odyssey of the individual toward the fullest expression of himself, in which each tradition...