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...been placed in a more difficult position. Although indisputably Alexandra's favorite grandson, he was expected, while she lay dying, to dine as the Lord Mayor's guest at a great Guildhall banquet, to which over 800 of his father's most distinguished subjects had been invited for the sole purpose of hearing the Prince discourse officially upon his Empire Tour (TIME, Oct. 23 et ante...
...insures himself a place in the category of reforming saints. At last a defender of the faith has been found--a crusade under the flag of "man and superman." But unfortunately for the contention of the bishop, there was buried last month--though not in Carolina--a lady whose sole attraction and main achievement had been a luxuriant beard...
...Their punishment shall be trousers which bag at the knees and expulsion from Major Pringle's famous fraternity, 'W. D. F.' Then along toward midnight when the various speakers have one by one fainted from exhaustion until there is a sole survivor, he should be presented with that noble combined cleaning and pressing outfit so ably exploited by the 'Valentina,' and contracts from all those freshmen who have survived...
Although many a youth now enters college in search of pleasure and finds it, it is absurd to assert that as the sole motive the going to college--even in this pleasure-loving age. Neither the older nor the younger generation could be so unanimous in a single motive. Both, it seems fair to say, were prepared to absorb as much academic and worldly wisdom as came their way. Neither was averse to a good time. The greatest difference is in the tense of the verb with which you describe fathers and sons: one got it, the other is getting...
TIME Washington, D. C. The News-Magazine Oct. 17, 1925 Sirs: Please do not think me critical of TIME, but having come from California all the way across this continent for the sole pur pose of standing for a few brief moments before those nine robed and worthy succes sors of John Marshall, and having months ago perused with interest your articles concerning Mr. Justice McKenna's retirement and the elevation of Mr. Justice Stone to the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I have just read with an amazement not unmingled with sorrow the advertisement...