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...House at 11 a. m. with almost embarrassing promptness. It just missed colliding in the hallway with President Hoover and his aides as they hustled to the Red Room to receive their callers. Beneath a fine Federalist cut-glass chandelier President Hoover sat down on a plum-colored velvet couch. Mr. Roosevelt was nodded into a seat beside him. Secretaries Stimson and Mills, Democrat Norman Hezekiah Davis and Professor Raymond Moley distributed themselves nearby. Mr. Hoover, as usual, took a cigar. Mr. Roosevelt, as usual, took a cigaret...
...Slices" or some other ingenious execution. The dog, regarded with religious awe by Chinese masses, was as much a mystery to them as to foreigners. The Emperor's dogs were his constant companions. They rode before him in the saddle, lay beside him on the couch, sat with him on the throne. To him the association attested his own divine nature. On his favorite beasts he bestowed titles of duke and prince, regal incomes, princely retinues. Puppies were suckled by waiting-women whose own girl babies had been conveniently drowned...
...QUILLER-COUCH. The Blue Pavilions. Scarce...
...QUILLER-COUCH. Green Bays...
...QUILLER-COUCH. Poems and Ballads. Scarce...