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...this did not mean that President Hoover was not vitally interested in all that went on at the conference. On its opening day, he arose before daylight, put on a bulky sweater, a pair of old trousers and sneakers, went down into the china room in the White House basement.* There his medicine-ball playfellows awaited him around a radio loudspeaker. In attentive silence the President sat listening to the address of George V, King and Emperor. When the program from London was over, the President arose, remarked upon the clarity of the reception but not upon its substance...
...corner of the show were the animals. Some one with an eye to the dramatic exhibited two of Poultry's historic enemies-a pair of fretful, sleepy black foxes. Also present, apparently discouraged at being included in a poultry show, were rabbits. Most remarkable were 58 Castor Rex rabbits from France, worth approximately...
Last fortnight Helen Newington Wills, world's foremost lady tennis player, quietly married Frederick S. Moody Jr. in Berkeley, Calif., and departed immediately for a Pacific cruise on the yacht Galatea. The press followed her in a perfunctory fashion, told how a yacht club gave the pair a private dining room, how the Galatea had touched at Catalina, how they sailed away again headed south, etc., etc. There was, perhaps because of Mrs. Moody's well-known composure and lack of flair, remarkably little pother made for so newsworthy a person at so newsworthy a time...
...King and Queen would take in their ride from Quirinal Palace to Vatican Palace. The huge oval of St. Peter's Square was kept free of spectators. From dawn on the day appointed, crowds of pious, enthusiastic Romans jammed the sidewalks of every street through which the royal pair could possibly pass, whiled away the long hours playing lottery games. Enterprising peddlers did a rushing business selling envelopes containing numbers shrewdly dubbed the "favorites" of the Pope, the King, the Queen. Many a Roman policeman unbent to buy tickets himself and play with the crowd...
Louis XI was no picture-book king. He had "a long ugly nose . . . a pair of oblique eyes too deeply set, thin lips, a powerful jaw . . . a jutting chin;" was less than middle height, bald, thin-shanked, shabbily dressed. A great talker himself, though direct and blunt, he required others to be the soul of brevity. Like many autocrats, he preferred plain people to the aristocracy. His favorite hat, high-peaked, shapeless, banded with leaden images of saints, was famed. But once at least he ordered a new one. He wrote to his General of Finances: "I have forgotten...