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...harassed life. He had brought them together four years before, had helped them make the biggest names in Victorian theatrical history. But all his vast reserves of tact and persuasion could not prevent the immensely successful but entirely antipodal collaborators from a ruinous breach over £140 worth of carpet eleven years later...
...living under house arrest, never knowing when his guards might turn executioners, had made the Vice Chancellor's eyes red from sleepless worry-or nervous weeping. Even a son of onetime All Highest Kaiser Wilhelm, gape-jawed, goggle-eyed Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi"), had been called on the carpet as a plot suspect by bull-necked Nazi General Hermann Wilhelm Göring. After grilling perspiring "Auwi," whom he scared half to death, General Göring kicked him out of the Nazi Party and out of the Storm Troops in which he had been a group commander with...
...Confederate surgeon who left South Carolina after the carpet bag regime to teach hydrotherapy at Columbia's College of Physicians & Surgeons, young Baruch accompanied his father to New York, graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1889. His first notable job was with A. A. Housman & Co., stockbrokers. Thereafter Baruch's business was that of making money by his wits in Wall Street. His teachers and friends were rugged individualists of famed memory: James Keene, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Henry Huddleston Rogers...
...diamond necklace and breastplate-$15,000; 24 leaves from the Gutenberg Bible- $5,100; a first edition of Gray's Elegy- $3,500; a second edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Poems-$3,400; a complete set of Declaration of Independence signers- $18,989; an Ispahan palace carpet-$13,000 a glazed terra cotta altarpiece from the workshop of Delia Robbia-$7,600; a two-handled Queen Anne silver cup and cover - $1,550; a 16th Century Tournai tapestry...
...evidence was a letter in which Cord had written to his able First Lieutenant Lucius Bass Manning: "Requa seems to think ... it is a cinch that Postmaster General Brown is going to bow to him and definitely says he has the power and will call Brown on the carpet...