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...King, accompanied by Queen Mary and Prince Henry, drove in semi-state to "the city" followed by a troop of the Royal Household Cavalry. At the Temple Bar, the Lord Mayor met their Majesties, surrendered to the King the keys of the City and the emblematic pearl sword of privileges. The royal party drove on to Leadenhall Street, where the King alighted from his carriage, smote a stone with a mallet, tested the stone's lie with a spirit-level, declared it "well and truly laid." The occasion was the laying of the foundation stone of a new building...
...mournful Bryan, whose moans were loud in the land as, defeated on a Presbyterian issue (see RELIGION), he advertised his leadership of the crusade against "monkeyism." With a snarl or two at Chattanooga, who seemed to covet its juicy bone of publicity, Dayton made ready. The Progressive Club "drove" for $5,000 for additional publicity. A drug store re-named itself "Monkeyville Soda Fountain" and dispensed miniature simians. To house the crowds expected, the railroad company was asked for a fleet of Pullman cars. Cordell Hull, onetime Democratic National Chairman, Rhea County's representative in Congress, was requested...
...made proposals to her but not of the kind she wanted to hear. For, although Serena was so beautiful that no man could resist her, such was her docility that she could not resist any man. Many seduced, but only the butler befriended her. When, at last, she drove to church on her wedding day, the Countess Flor di Folio sat at the head of the aisle on the left. At the head of the aisle on the right sat a full-blooded Nicaraguan Indian. The English Lady of Quality who wrote this book with incomparable chastity is said...
...Winsted, Conn., famed as a home of strange events, one Charles Alling beheld a large crane caught by the foot in a wire fence, went to save the pitiable fowl. The crane drove his beak into Alling's left eye, ", permanently blinded...
...Atlanta, one A. M. Squires, golfing, drove over a water hazard. His ball struck a jaybird who was soaring over the water. The jaybird's life, the ball, the hole were lost...