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Many important points of friction between the two countries, some of which have been causing irritations for decades, were eliminated by the commission. The rights of American fishermen on the treaty coast of Newfoundland were granted; the American government was declared not liable for injuries sustained by British monarchists in Hawaii during the reign of Queen "Lil" the last national march Great Britain's claims for reparation for damage done her citizens at lloilo in the Philippines were denied, but the American government was declared liable for the looting of British owned houses in Lavite, also in the Philippines, when...
...that a concert artist of Mme. Samaroff's rank and distinction has undertaken such work. As a rule, a successful concert career precludes the possibility of such an undertaking; and but for an accident Mme. Samaroff's many concert engagements would have taken her as far as the Pacific Coast during the next few months...
...dealers excited by unspeakable profits. For Reuterdahl was not an artist; he was a craftsman; his craft, the faultless delineation of a ship. Not for him was the cloudy, light-streaked glory of Turner's seas; not for him the salty terror of Winslow Homer's rockbound coast; Reuterdahl never played ghost with John Masefield's Wanderer; Reuterdahl went with natty-suited officers of the U. S. N. Yet, as a craftsman he was master of color. He could brighten the bulkhead of an officer's messroom. He could color the Missouri Capitol with brilliant...
...desperate. "He falls on his knees. "He weeps. "He beats the sailors. "He kisses them. "He prays. "He promises the Lord Jesus Christ a cross if he will save him from shipwreck. He promises to appoint Him a Russian Rear-Admiral. "Ivan the Terrible is hurled upon the coast and shattered to pieces. "Peter and the sailors are washed upon the shore like dead fish...
...expedition is to leave New Orleans by steamer on January 9 for Belize, British Honduras, where a trading schooner has been chartered. In the sailing vessel the expedition will skin the Eastern Coast of Yucatan, stopping at points where ruins are known or suspected to exist in order to make excursions into the interior. Sometime in May the explorers will return to the United States...