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Since this mummery had been imperfectly timed last week, the Commons came scrambling after the Black Rod into the House of Lords with unseemly haste. Soon the Lord President of the Council, the Earl of Balfour, knelt and presented to His Majesty a scroll containing "The King's Speech." In clear, vibrant tones, distinctly audible to everyone, George V read what purported to be his own speech...
...Scroll of history is replete with stories that stir the heart and fire the naggination. Sagas of the rise and fall of nations like the total annihilation of Carthage in a single month, or the great movement that started from the cave of Vallombrosa to carry out its dream and build, after ten centuries, the world-wide Spanish Empire, are truly Homeric in their subject matter. But few tales are more magnificent than that of the phenix of a free united Italy, rising from the ashes of the fires of revolution that had swept the peninsula so long...
...dame of a Civil War profiteer. And he did love pearls; liked to caress them against his cheek. He knew where he could get them. They were sewed on the bridal finery of Jewish girls in Poland; they were beaded on the silk and velvet covers of the Blessed Scroll of Laws in synagogues. Cossacks brought pearls to the Polish Jews; carried them from beyond the Caucasians, from Bokhara, and Tiflis and Bagdad; traded them to Jews for prized utensils. But these Americans, sports of war and wealth, knew nothing of pearls . . . only the jangling of diamonds. Jacob Dreicer rented...
...phrases were most original. To describe the fop of her day she invented or hit upon the significant epithet, "awless." She called sky "an ancient scroll." She knew what was meant when her gypsy crone said: "She will never be lonely while pushing sticks into fire and watching them burn away." One evening she wrote: "The secrets of life that are discovered from age to age are as hard to find as a knife lost in rushes." She sympathized with the American colonists and aroused by George Ill's banishment of traitorous Jack Wilkes...
They dined in jubilant cohorts, went to the theatre, to the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition, to a banquet in Manhattan where they presented a testimonial scroll to North Pole Flyers Byrd and Bennet, saw French Legion of Honor crosses (Chevalier) pinned on the chests of their President, King Woodbridge, and their past President, Lou E. Holland. They changed their name from "Associated Advertising Clubs of the World" to "International Advertising Association," re-elected King Woodbridge president, elected Francis H. Sisson (vice-president of the Guaranty Trust Co.) treasurer, Rowe Stewart (business manager of the Philadelphia Record) secretary. They raised the dues...