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When police arrived at the "Black House" of Sir Oswald's British Union, they did not find the Führer himself, but eight black-shirted comrades who lined up and shouted "Hell Mosley!" before they were hustled off to Brixton Gaol. Married with Nazi pomp to Diana Guinness, sister of the Führer's bullet-punctured friend Unity Freeman-Mitford, with Hitler reported to have been best man. Sir Oswald recently celebrated "my forthcoming arrest" in a swank London restaurant. He was picked up at home and police were sent after his wife, who had headed...
...Moldan" Symphonic Poem Smetans *"To A Wild Rose" MacDowell *Walls Seene from "Faust" Gouned *Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner *Scherso from "A Mid Summer Night's Dream" Mandelssohn *Overture to "Poet and Peasant" Suppe *By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Waltz *Song of the Volga Bargemon Arranged by Gazounov *Pomp and Circumstance Elgar
Catered by Dave Chasen, the dinner was served with pomp in the 60-foot Rathbone dining hall. Lebensraum was conquered by extending the dining-room floor out into the garden, covering and siding the extension with canvas to keep out the rain...
...Viceroy's ship rounded Point Colaba and anchored off the ornamental Gateway of India in Bombay Harbor. Ashore India was prepared to greet her new ruler with the customary fanfare. India waited. Lord Irwin sent word that he considered Good Friday an inappropriate day for pomp. Instead he went ashore unofficially to attend a three-hour Good Friday agony service in Bombay. Not until the next morning did the new ruler officially step from his launch to Indian soil while the white warships of the Indian squadron boomed 31 guns...
...square cannon balls and bullets . . . making a total revolution in the Art of War' ") and deflated ("the proprietors of private madhouses had their hands so full that they were obliged to shut their doors . . ."). In 1727 the old King died and the coronation of George Augustus and pomp-loving Caroline (who had a "petticoat so heavily jewel-encrusted that it was found necessary to contrive a sort of pulley that en abled her to raise the hem when she knelt down") ushered in the Augustan...