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...Inn, The Man Who Was Thursday), prime defender of the faith (Catholic Essays, St. Francis of Assisi). Author Chesterton gave a series of lectures on Victorian literature and history. Last week, when it was time to pack up and leave South Bend, Ind., he became effusively grateful at the recognition with which the institution recognized his labors: an honorary LL. D., given by the Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, president, at a special convocation of the faculty...
Belgium's Albert after climbing up to a Swiss mountain inn, called for cafe au lait and a roll. Said His Majesty, suiting action to words, "Mmmm, I always like to dip my bread into my coffee at breakfast, but the Queen doesn't like it and only lets me do it when there is no one present but the family." Screamed Hearstpapers: IT'S OUT! THE KING IS A BUNKER...
Black-Robed Benchers. Awesomely, like so many legal acolytes of Death, six black-robed benchers of Gray's Inn came for the great jurist's body. He should not lie in state at his house in dignified Belgravia but among the cloistered inns of court, snug in the chapel of his own Gray's Inn...
...sent for his friends. Ten thousand dollars was put up with which to buy land but the stolid Dutch farmers were as testy then as the merchants are now. For a long time many refused to sell. When the land was at last procured, cottages, studios and an inn were erected. Nearby a farm was laid out to feed the colonists. Besides painting, classes in furniture-making (later dropped), rug-weaving, metal-working and pottery were instituted. The farmers' attitude is indicated by a Le Gallienne anecdote: "One of them recently interviewed as to what he thought of the artists...
...drink, sing and swagger on the 24th anniversary of the First Battle of Bull Run through which they all had fought. 34 Civil War Veterans of Company B, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, met at an inn at Stillwater. Minn, in 1885. There they organized the Last Man Club, pledged to assemble annually until only one member survived. Into a rosewood box they put a bottle of Burgundy with which the Last Man was to toast his dead comrades...