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In a small anteroom, papered in black, are a draped couch, and more oriental curios-among them an opium pipe, trophy of a police raid in Pittsburgh. Adjoining the anteroom is a spacious gold-walled lavatory, the plumbing fixtures of black porcelain. In a corner stands a lacquer red refrigerator...
(4 of 5) is to indicate Vatican City's sovereignty rather than to provide a currency. The result will doubtless be the virtual hoarding of the money-as curios, mementos, keepsakes and possibly scapularies. First issue will be New Year's Day.* The Man. Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti...
The late Oscar von Forckenbeck, high Prussian official, had a consuming passion: the collection of old newspapers and manuscripts. When he died in 1892 he left the fruits of 40 years of collecting-jour-nals in 43 languages from 32 countries. These were bequeathed to the municipality of Aix-la...
* To see 80 performances 383,000 visitors paid $1,200,000 which, after deducting promotion and production expenses and the cost of the new theatre left a Passion Play net profit of some $600,000. By letting rooms, dispensing food and drink, peddling curios and selling objects of piety the...
The Law School faculty has decided to provide a room as a Law School Museum in the new addition to Langdell Hall, which is soon to be started, according to an announcement made by Dean Roscoe Pound Hon, '20. Historic legal documents, curios, relics, and paintings of great interest and...