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Meanwhile, officers and men were right royally entertained by the Governor and populace of the Islands. "Gratification was derived from the good behavior of the shoring sailors...
...doctor, the king has indicated under the royal family law a place of permanent residence for Prince George and appointed a special doctor." Prince George, 37 years of age, is the eldest son of the late King Peter and renounced his rights to the throne in 1909. His extraordinary behavior, manifested in a supreme disregard for social etiquette, won for him the sobriquet of "the hotspur of Europe," and the conviction that he was mad. On one occasion, it is related, he was bounced out of a Belgrade music hall for flinging champagne bottles at the orchestra leader...
...business, the novels of George Eliot and Airs. Humphry Ward, Puritanism and its offspring, Protestantism; the inky rivers of the city of Manchester, drains, dogmas and all the iron altars erected to that latter day simulacrum of the Golden Bull of Tyre-the Industrial Ham. As Dickens' behavior toward Dissent was once described as that of a man who takes up a noisome fungus, smells it, makes an inarticulate noise of disgust and throws it away, so Arthur Machen treated the toadstools which, in 1906, he did not love. "Everything I hated in 1906 I hate now; if possible...
Rivers of assorted drinkables gurgled down his gullet. When drunk, his behavior was colorful. Vainglorious, he would swagger the streets, throwing handfuls of small silver to the ragamuffins following at heel. Sentimental, he would warble Go Tell Aunt Rhody or Oh White, White Moon. Belligerent, he would ravish a saloon, break all the glassware, splendidly pay for it next day. He put on flesh...
...Stewart's fame as a lecturer is only exceeded by his reputation as a writer of parodies and humorous satires. Many of his writings have appeared in "Vanity Fair", "Life", and "Scribner's" and he is also well known for his longer works, "A Parody Outline of History", "Perfect Behavior", "Aunt Polly's Story of Mankind" and "Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad...