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What astute B'rer Briand really wanted was to get from his guests an endorsement of his scheme which should be unanimous, however vague. Therefore the food and wine were of first importance. No gourmet himself, M. Briand had the menu prepared by M. Aimé Leroy, a noted epicure who is also French Consul-Genera] in Geneva...
...taken over by pouchy-eyed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, wise and wily as an old tomcat, nine times Prime Minister of France, incomparably her most winning, sonorous orator. Whereas M. Poin-caré had piled the Chamber's rostrum mountains high with notes and documents, shrewd B'rer Briand with a droll little gesture laid one of his visiting cards on the stand before him and commenced his spellbinding quite extempore...
Thus spake immortal Albrecht Dürer who could and did portray all visible things whatsoever which were chosen by his often niggling patrons. Last week in his native city-quaint, medieval, storied Nuremberg-men paused to remember that Albrecht Dürer died there just four hundred years ago. They prowled up the steep stairs and round the drafty rooms of Dürer's tall house near the Castle Nuremberg. They viewed a great, commemorative collection of his works, and marveled how, at a patron's whim, he could crowd a mighty canvas with all imaginable...
...Berlin the speaker's rostrum of the Reichstag was surmounted with a wreath of laurel leaves, to honor Painter-Goldsmith-Etcher Albrecht Dürer. Upon the desk of the President of the Reichstag stood, for a day, the Christ-like portrait which Artist Dürer painted of himself...
...second laurel wreath was placed upon the grave of Dürer, in St. John...