FOREMAN SETTLED IT
Mr John North, the novelist, gives the following authentic story. Ingredients : One of the mammoth buildings now being erected in London; One of the greatest and most knightly figures in the world of architecture; A diminutive foreman stonemason; Several slabs of polished granite forming a vestibule wall. The Great Man: “This won’t do at all, my men. The colourings are wrong” (pointing, with his chavalric umbrella). “You’Jl have to change this section, and this, and this ” The foreman: “The Lord God made that stone, and He was satisfied with it So I’m satisfied—and so you ought to be.” (Fade out of knightly architect.) —Juex, in “News Chronicle.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3178, 14 May 1932, Page 7
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