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...Once indifferent to religion, Lawyer Greenspan found fresh faith two years ago when his eldest daughter miraculously escaped Death. Thereafter he prayed during every office day. Last week more than 100 Jews went to his synagog's first service. When the skyscraper synagog is built, it will doubtless contain many a rich memorial to and from men of great wealth, just as Trinity's bronze doors memorialize John Jacob Astor, and its reredos and altar, William Backhouse Astor...
Dealer Demotte owned a statuette of the Virgin and Child which he called a 13th century Limoges enamel. He was fond of describing how Queen Isabella of Spain, one of its owners, had caused a niche to be cut under the pommel of her saddle to contain the statuette. With this tiny shrine she could jaunt while worshiping, or worship while jaunting...
...they contain germs caught from the hen or absorbed through the shell pores; 2) they lose water by evaporation through the shell, a condition which helps break down the membrane between yellow and white; 3) they are kept at a temperature too high, which causes chemical reactions, if not the formation of embryos; .4) most important and only newly discovered, the alkalinity of white and yolk has increased...
...Some 24 hours later the Bankruptcy Court ordered her release, and she left Holloway Jail in women's clothes by a side entrance, thus escaping the peering eyes of a vulgar throng of at least 1,000 male and female Britons, most of whose vocabularies do not even yet contain the noun transvestite, the verb transvestize, the adjective transvestile, the adverb transvestily. Example: 'Transvestizing herself she became transvestile so transvestily that she may fairly be called a transvestite...
...volumes of "La Caricature" contain many lithographs by Daumier, including some of his most famous, as "Mr. Prune" and "Mr. Guiz", as well as the work by his contemporaries. There is also a useful addition in a complete set of Turner's "Liber Studiorum...