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...Dutch Senate voted against a bill prohibiting daylight saving time. The new time will probably come into effect on June 1. The question of daylight saving was the cause of a hot political dispute between the town dwellers and the agrarians. The former got up petitions signed by long lists of people among whom were many notables. The latter, who are very numerous, obtained the support of the Catholic Party; they declare that daylight saving time is entirely unfavorable to farming. It is clear that the Senate have overridden a majority demand in the interests of trade, which is affected...
...horsemanship goes I resemble Henry VIII more than William III. Henry used to tire out eight or ten horses a day by hard riding. William died from a fall when his horse stumbled over a molehill." Friedrich Wilhelm, ex-Crown Prince: "I had my photograph taken on my solitary Dutch isle-a clear profile against a dark background of clouds. When it was shown at a meeting of telephone girls at Flensburg they passed a resolution saying I should become their next kaiser...
...beautiful. Her art was not one of interpretation. In stead of losing herself in a charac ter - Camille, for example - she used it simply as a mold in which to pour her own glowing vitality. She was born 78 years ago. Her father was French, her mother of mixed Dutch and Jewish origin. Her first great triumph came at the age of 22, as Cordelia in King Lear, at the Theatre Francois. Later, feeling her intense individuality cramped by the rooted traditions of the Francais, she left it after repeated quarrels. Her greatest part was probably that of Zanzetti...
...from an invisible window to the left fall on Roxane and the court ladies. Daylight enters at a door and an open window above. Lamps glow dimly in the background. A sacrificial fire, tended by priests, flares duskily at the right. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), greatest of the Dutch School, was born to wealth, married to an adored wife, Saskia, but ended in the bankruptcy court, a widower. The charming Saskia was the subject of countless pictures. A new art center, which will contain no school of instruction, will be established in Paris, as a gathering place for American...
Calvin Coolidge: " I was present at the annual gathering of The Dutch Treat Club at the Waldorf-Astoria. They gave a show about Sex and Mr. Sumner that came within an inch of making me laugh...