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Rheumatism combined with overwork have reduced Author Joyce to near-blindness : he wears thick spectacles, sometimes a black patch over his left eye. He cannot read without a magnifying glass. When he writes, he wears a white jacket with the arms of the City of Dublin embroidered on the breast pocket; uses a large red pencil. Friends reread his manuscript to him, which he corrects many times. His proofs, too, surfer, even to the fifth or sixth revision. Domestic, shy, Joyce rarely leaves home except for the opera or to dine at the famed Trianon Restaurant. Poor most...
...correct fencing, his back was always stiff, his knees usually bent, he gave an exhibition at the New York Athletic Club. His opponents were Clovis Deladrier, onetime military champion of Belgium, now instructor at Annapolis, and George Santelli, onetime amateur champion of Hungary. As Nadi touched Deladrier's breast with the point of his foil or slashed at Santelli with his sabre, his own mastery seemed to excite him. He talked -rapidly in French, Spanish, Italian, punctuating each touch with the words "et la!" Sometimes "et la!" was a celebration of his own passes, sometimes of Deladrier...
Kneeling with devout mien near the poor box adjacent to the Altar of Confession in St. Peter's last week, one Giuseppe de Palois stealthily extracted from his breast pocket a slender, quivering piece of whalebone...
...dock was the reception committee: Sir Austen & Lady Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, President Sir William Llewellyn of Britain's Royal Academy where the pictures will be shown. Lady Chamberlain hastened aboard to find out whether damage had been done. Proudly Captain Sturlese, nine medals glittering on his breast, told her that every crate was intact...
...Pope's Armies. Out of his automobile stepped short-legged Vittorio Emanuele III, in the grey-green and silver dress uniform of a field marshal. From his hat sprouted a white aigrette, round his neck hung the flashing gold chain of the Collar of the Annunziata, on his breast blazed medals. Towering a good head and shoulders above him stood Queen Elena...