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...special trains chuffed in with a trampling, eager throng which other means of transport swelled to 250,000. In all 54 females fainted. With the sun blistering down, George V received on his yacht slews of gold-laced admirals, sea-peacocks who arrived in glittering barges, plus the more drab captains of liners sent to the review as "floating grandstands," the Berengaria, Alcantara and Arandora Star. On some of these, British spenders paid as much as $250 per head for the day's outing in a deluxe suite. Snapping their Kodaks, they caught the Victoria and Albert steaming...
About one-third of Robert's 54 faculty members are U. S. citizens. Officially they lead a drab, secluded life. Penalty for drinking is instant dismissal. Though Robert is non-sectarian and officially nonproselytizing, the ruling element in the faculty is composed of oldsters rooted in the missionary tradition. But younger facultymen, adventurous college graduates, mostly from the West and Midwest, go out on three-year contracts to see Life. Istanbul has a gay foreign colony and night life...
...racially pure than many of his subjects. His mother, Princess Clementina, was German-Polish, the granddaughter of John Sobieski, famed Turk-toppler. From her Prince Charlie inherited his charm, his love of adventure. Clementina's marriage with Pretender James was a runaway to romance that turned into a drab political alliance; the Old Pretender was not the glamorous figure his son turned...
...been carried, from a coffin crammed with counterfeit banknotes to a notorious suede moneybag containing only a Moslem potentate knew what. Every threat of Balkan war, every komitadji bandit raid near the steel rails, every chronic Bulgarian earth tremor means costly problems to the trilingual Frenchmen in creased, drab uniforms who somehow always get the Orient Express through...
...Radcliffe Choral Society's singing of the delightfully naive, yet technically intricate madrigal, "The Nightingale," of Weelkes, and in the "Arkansas Traveler," more than made up for a rather drab and mechanical interpretation of a Gluck chorus from "Orpheus...