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...tree near the store is proof positive that she could get none in Charlotte. "Wish by gar it had a kilt her," said John. Charlotte has its cynics. Though John has reason to be. Did she not after bearing and bearing with all the twenty children bob her hair--pour le sport. Charlotte is not so far from Deauville in all things...
When Minister Resident Hood recently left Monrovia, the State Department announced that Reed P. Clark, white, former Consul at Mexico City, had been made Consul General and Charge d' Affaires at that place. Last week Negro politicians began to pour protests into the ear of Secretary Kellogg. The head of the legation at Monrovia had always been a Negro. Why could not Secretary Wharton have been made Charge d' Affaires? He had been in the service less than a year, was not eligible. Then why not one of the gentlemen at La Rochelle,* St. Etienne, Tananarive**? The Negro protestants feared...
Soon reports of the accident spread about. Parisians expressed their relief, rejoiced especially for the sake of Mme. Foch (the former Julie Bienvenue) and the two Foch daughters, Mme. Becourt and Mme. Fournier. To his only son, they recalled, is vouchsafed the distinction "Mort pour la France...
...violent alternations of Work and Play"?so says John Alden Carpenter, U. S. composer; so does he depict it in his new ballet, Skyscrapers, given its premiére last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Great steel skeletons point into the sky; steel-colored men, monotonously alike, pour life into them . . . Any Coney Island, with its merry-go-rounds, its sideshows, girls, sailors, street-cleaners, sandwich men, time clocks . . . No story, says Mr. Carpenter, just American life?Work and Play?"each with its own peculiar and distinctive rhythmic character"?American life for which Robert Edmund Jones designed...
...women of her late father's house of Rutland. In the 18th Century, Mary Isabella, "the beautiful duchess," sat four times to Sir Joshua Reynolds. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, whom Lady Diana is said to resemble most and whose device and motto she uses (a peacock rampant, subscribed Pour y parvenir), bobbed her hair and eloped with Sir John Manners 400 years ago, making a speech to her relatives which Diana paraphrased in 1919 after finding and nursing Captain Alfred Duff-Cooper in a Red Cross station in France: "But I love the man, and I shall have none...