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...late Lillian Russell, actress: "In Pittsburgh I filed charges against my stepfather, Alexander P. Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Spain. I accused him of gross mismanagement of my mother's estate, which now brings me only $50 a week. The proceeds of the sale of her belongings (including precious jewels and photographs autographed by princes and kings) amounted to only $40,000. My attorney said that this was inconceivably small...
...size, and believed by experts to be the model for a larger work never completed. That it was stolen at the instance of an art expert is indicated by the fact that a large reproduction of the picture in the same gallery was undisturbed. Other larger but less precious paintings were also found intact...
...Significance. Geranium trees and alabaster cups?pickled walnuts and plovers' eggs?Darius Milhaud and Ouida?a patchwork of curious names, objects, personages, vices?a plate of literary antipasto, some pleasant, some a little stale. Somewhat affected, somewhat precious, quite amusing, though not nearly as delightful as Peter Whiffle, The Blind Bow-Boy reviews a facile display of intellectual fireworks from under the lacquered eyelids of a superficial sophistication. The fireworks squib out, the performance is over. There were too many pinwheels near the close, perhaps, and the shadow of Ronald Firbank had a way of straying across the scene...
According to the Reparations Commission, the Empress Zita has every right to dispose of the precious stones in any way she sees...
...dinner in Stillwater, Minn. Foreseeing that in the coming years death would decimate their ranks, they founded the Last Man's Club. Each year they agreed to meet again on the anniversary of the battle. A bottle of wine was dedicated to the last man, who should open the precious bottle and drink a toast to his departed comrades...