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...seldom or never believed -that he would be a Father to them: "God has indeed been good to me, for he has given me five children. They came into the world each one with a nature and with characteristics different from their brothers and sisters. I have tried my utmost to understand those differences and to deal with each one of my children in a fashion appropriate to his or her nature; to give support where support has seemed to me to be needed, and in each to cultivate natural gifts and good qualities. I have sought, too, to encourage...
...abundantly true that the tent is mightier than the pen." Indian journalists, accustomed like English journalists to official hauteur and snubs, imperceptibly warmed to a new Viceroy who said: "Like the rest of us, newspaper men cannot be expected to make bricks without straw. . . . I intend to do my utmost to give them such assistance as properly...
...student body helps the team to play a better game. With permission to attend one or two practices a week, Harvard men would be in much closer contact with their own football team and the benefit received would be mutual. Naturally there are always times when the utmost secrecy must be maintained in regard to new plays or team lineups, but one or two open practices ought not to divulge important matters which may be worked on during the other days of the week...
Meanwhile the ravening reporters were handled on the Conte di Savoia with the utmost neatness by Victoria Eugenie's son-in-law, Italian Prince Alessandro TorIonia, and his wife the Spanish Infanta Beatriz. Nothing of a nature detrimental to the Duchess of Toledo was discovered and the Press considered it of "human interest" that on the voyage the Infanta Beatriz had played privately on the musical saw and Queen Victoria Eugenie had permitted herself to be publicly amused at the ship's concert by long-nosed Buffoon Jimmy Durante. Passengers told how a contingent of Spanish Monarchist youths...
Speaking Dutch with scarcely any German accent, beaming Benno said: "I am very happy and hope to be able to marry within two or three months. I will do my utmost to be of real help to my future wife...