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Princess Sophie von Hesse could hardly be expected to face a second marriage unadorned by at least one trinket from the storied family jewel chest...
...great fact collector. Darwin wrote to his friend and portraitist Thomas Woolner, begging the advice of "a cautious and careful English artist" on the subject. Thanks to him, Darwin was able to state that "with English women, blushing does not extend beneath the neck and upper part of the chest," but Woolner got little credit for his work on this scientific milestone...
...plot, Rattigan had dug out of the Royal Navy's sea chest an old skeleton (the notorious Archer-Shee case of 1908, in which a naval cadet was falsely convicted of theft), and dressed it with care. His characters spoke their usual brittle, japanned British, but the effect was biting satire, not light comedy. As the surprise wore off, Londoners decided that they liked their Rattigan serious as well as flippant...
Then the long review was over. Karl Frank was led to the foot of a tall beam from which dangled a hangman's noose. A heavy leather belt was tied around his chest and two assistants hauled him to the top of the beam, where a white-gloved hangman fastened the noose around his neck. The assistants let go. A mild cheer broke out and was hushed by court dignitaries. Of all the eyes that watched, not one was softened by compassion...
...before the American Iron & Steel Institute last week stepped Enders M. Voorhees, chairman of U.S. Steel's finance committee. He wanted to get off his chest some steel-hard economic and financial facts which the steelmen knew, but which the U.S. has largely ignored. Said Mr. Voorhees...