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When James McNeill Whistler died in 1903, people believed that this masterpiece would forthwith be placed in the Louvre. The curators of that museum, however, decided to let it undergo a seasoning in the Luxembourg. There it has remained. This summer, the room in which it hung was needed for an exhibition of Rumanian paintings. The Whistler, despite the belated protests of U. S. tourists, was put in the cellar...
...made. Shortly afterward, a soft collar was put on the market, advertised by thousands of brittle, frostily handsome young men who stared down at the great U. S. public from streetcar nooks and up at them from the back pages of magazines. It was called the Van Heusen collar. Forthwith, John B. Bolton of Philadelphia brought suit against one John M. Van Heusen of Jamaica Plain, Mass., to recover $6,000,000. Last week, the court awarded him $1,314,241 of that amount...
After due reflection the Senate agreed, passed the bill by 273 to 11 with numerous abstentions. Next day, President Gaston Doumergue affixed his signature to the measure and it forthwith became the law of France...
General Pangalos and Admiral Hajikiriakos forthwith occupied Athens. There was some spectacular firing but no bloodshed and no damage. The Provisional President was permitted to request ex-Premier Papanastasiou to form a Government, but as his party, the Radical Republicans of the Democratic Union, declined to support him, he early abandoned his Cabinetmaking attempt. A government was forthwith formed by General Pangalos, who became Premier and Minister of War with Admiral Hajikiriakos as Minister of Marine...
...third day M. Veenstra, Belgian's second string, came down in Spain, 800.miles from his starting point and was forthwith declared the winner. Later, however, it was declared that he too landed on the sea and it appeared likely that De Muyter after all would be declared the winner, although Van Orman, who had landed unassisted, was preparing to dispute his claim...