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...hired a lion from Bostock Circus, took it home for a pet. She mastered jiu jitsu, and many a corpulent matron strove to do likewise to keep up. She admired Sandow, famed strong man, and sat unconcernedly in ' box to see Jim Corbett, at a time when such behavior was, for a lady, unheard of. She hired Paderewski on one occasion, distributing tickets to all who wished to hear him. She sponsored a newsboys' baseball team. At 73 she engaged M. Kosloff to teach her Russian dance steps...
...letters were read and duly cheered. They were couched in strong language for diplomacy but they were in no sense "insulting." Continued the Premier: "The behavior of the Mexican Government has been inexcusable. [General cheers.] After various attempts to get that Government to hold its hand, a message came to the Foreign Office on Saturday, the 14th, that if Mr. Cummins did not surrender himself His Majesty's Legation would be broken into on the 16th. The Consul General was warned by me of the gravity of such a step and I made a final request to the Government...
VOGUE'S BOOK OF ETIQUETTE?by the Editors of Vogue?Condé Nast ($4.00). No doubt we have improved somewhat since the days back in the fabulous forties when manuals on correct behavior advised their readers in all seriousness to "omit the annoying foreign) fashion of taking water into your mouth [when finger bowls were passed], rinsing and gargling it around, and them spitting it back into the glass"; and, ire another place: "The rising generation of elegants in America are particularly requested to observe that, in polished! society, it is not quite comme il faut for gentlemen to blow their...
...ousted," said the Mexican Government to H. A. C. Cummins, British Chargé des Archives- at Mexico City, whom they accused of unfriendly and offensive behavior. The answer returned to the Government by Mr. Cummins was to lock himself up in the British Legation building...
...have just come across a new kind of missionary report. It is entitled: 1) "Report of Three Years Cotton Improvement Work." 2) "Observations of the Behavior of Cotton Plants." That may sound dry if you do not happen to be a scientist but it does not sound as dry as the little...