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...Karolyi, first President of Hungary, for three years barred from this country because of his socialistic tendencies, arrived on the liner Cristobal Colon, en route from Mexico to Spain. He was astounded to learn that a technicality of the immigration laws allowed him 60 hours ashore. "Another of those quaint American paradoxes," said he. "I had expected to be chained to the Statue of Liberty...
...Just a sweet little green island set in the blue waters of the Irish Sea, with its rolling hills and slumbrous glens, full of gorse and heather and fern; three or four quaint little fishing ports and one larger town devoted to the joyous and rather rollicking life of the visiting industry...
Testimony indicates that unorthodox foods can be made appetizing. Snake and chicken are much alike.* Like white meat of chicken too are frog legs. Horse meat is sweet, dog steaks flat. Rat and cat are little different from tame rabbit. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste, are tough to chew. Human flesh is sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earthworms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness...
...duly inspected by Their Majesties hums Leverville, a famed palm-oil extracting centre of the great British firm of Lever Brothers, "World's Largest Soap Makers." The late, picturesque William Hesketh Lever, who became Viscount Leverhulme, was a favored business crony of Uncle Leopold, and profited accordingly. Quaint was Mr. Lever's presentation to King Leopold II of an ivory box containing the first cake of soap made from Congo palm-oil extracted at Leverville. Uncle Leopold, whom no gift could dazzle, afterwards said that the presentation cake "stank cursedly and wouldn't lather," when he sought...
...daily automobile editor has ever dared to say anything but equally nice things about each and every automobile that was ever offered for sale. Miss Hughes' advice to storekeepers is much more specific. To date, however, her best work has been to acquaint the buying millions with quaint details. Some of her paragraphs...