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Elephants, those kingly beasts, get their buns. But there is a rhyme in this book about a King who had a hard time getting so much as a piece of butter for the royal slice of bread. He asked the Queen to tell the Dairymaid to tell the Alderney to be sure to make some butter...
...Royal Cortissoz, art editor of the New York Herald-Tribune, will give an illustrated lecture on the French painter Degas in the lecture hall of the Fogg Museum, Tuesday, January 20, at 4.30 o'clock. The talk, held under the auspices of the Fogg Art Museum, will be soon to the public...
...social life of the time; and the author in his turn has been able to embellish them with many an observation drawn from his immense knowledge of the period. The reader learns that George I was depressed at becoming King of England, that Lady Suffolk upbraided her royal lover for neglect, that life with the German Georges was not quite as dull from the inside as it appears from the outside...
...from its timbers, cover the wainscoting, and shut off the inquiring gaze of the gentlemen whose portraits have stared indifferently over the heads of several generations. For tonight, at least, decaying grandeur will be enlivened by a farewell feast. Rumor has it that Mem has splurged on turkey, the royal American bird, and invites all her remembering sons to dine with...
Once more the exposition of King Tût-ankh-Amen's private life, personal trinkets and royal attributes is to be undertaken in the interests of Science. From Cairo, last week, came a report that Howard Carter has signed an agreement with the Egyptian Government, the details of which were not made public...