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...immovable amid clamor; a man who defied the mob; a man who beatified plutocracy by glorifying parsimony; a man who defied untoward events by ignoring them-him they saw as a hero and blinked his warts and scars. So in the white light that beats upon a throne the minor vices of a President sometimes at long range become his major virtues in the public...
...receive a viscountcy. The King-Emperor has no choice as to which "signal mark of favor" he must bestow. Moreover, in Mr. Whitley's case the Sovereign was impelled not by necessity but by liveliest gratitude. Well His Majesty knows that through seven stormy years the dignity of the Throne and the sanctity of tradition have been upheld by Speaker Whitley in an often ribald House of Commons. Therefore most Britons were positive that Mr. Whitley was about to become a viscount?but they were fooled...
Setsu Matsudaira, fiancee of Prince Chichibu, who is brother of the Emperor and heir apparent to the throne of Japan, tripped gracefully from the Shinyomaru, sheltered herself behind her father, Japanese ambassador to the U. S. Buddhist pilgrims beat incessantly upon their hand drums and invoked the heavenly Lotus. Yokohama school children piped shrill greetings to the girl who may be their Empress. Only Prince Chichibu, restrained by chill etiquette, remained in Tokyo, impatiently awaited his betrothed...
Last week these things were done, in the glittering Throne Room of Buckingham Palace, by 16 U. S. citizenesses and many another, at the two final courts of the London Season...
...Londoners chuckled hugely, coined a jest about "The Nineteenth 'No Gushing' Amendment," and finally recalled the gush uttered recently to reporters by Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau President of the D. A. R. after her presentation (TIME, May 21): "I went in early, and I was in the Throne Room from the very beginning of the ceremony...