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...Holiness Pius XI, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Summus Pontifex, 261st Bishop of Rome, Servant of the Servants of God, Head of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church for 17 years and four days. He was dying. Ill as well as aged (81), he had refused to take to his bed till three days before, stricken by cardiac asthma and kidney disturbances. A sturdy patient, he had told his physician that "the Pope must not stay in bed. The Pope must be Pope." Mindful of Leo XIII, who lay 20 days a-dying, he had said: "I will die sulla...
Only witness to the Don's descent into Hell was his scalawag servant, Leporello, word was no more trustworthy than his master's. Doña Ana, her suitor Don Ottavio and Leporello set off for Juan's country home, to tell Juan's father of his son's strange death. On the way Leporello disappears. Doña Ana suspects him of having invented the whole story. Sure enough, first Leporello, then Juan himself reappears. It seems that Juan had merely had a bad case of nettle rash, which marred his handsome face...
...Servant trouble last week compounded the normal confusions, stinks and noises of the world's biggest hotel. In the vast Chicago stockyards, a strike of C. I. O. stock handlers left 17,000 cattle and calves, 25,000 hogs, 10,000 sheep without service and the Chicago Livestock Exchange without a place to trade. Commission brokers and clerks fed & watered the stranded guests. The Exchange could do nothing for itself but suspend trading on the market where farmers sell (and brokers buy for packers and butchers) 13.1% of the cattle, 17.5% of the hogs, 5.3% of the calves...
...graceful rooms, the velvet lawns and old streets that surround them. Most real of all is the Queen herself (Anna Neagle), waltzing at a palace ball, reviewing troops on a white horse, rebuking Gladstone for not preventing the massacre of Gordon's army at Khartoum, telling an old servant how she waved to a crowd of costermongers at her Jubilee...
...some unknown person. Engraved cards of invitation to his house for today were sent out in his name. The style of the cards is unlike any he ever had, and the date is written in ink. In addition to this an advertisement stating that he desired to engage a servant girl was inserted in several Boston papers. The result of this is that he had forty or fifty applicants. He sent to the Boston newspapers on Saturday the following statement: President Eliot desires to have it known that the cards of invitation to his house for December 10, lately sent...