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...eccentric villa on Lago di Garda. According to latest reports they still spend the first four days waiting to be received in sumptuous comfort, find their closets full of the most expensive and entrancing lingerie, receive every two or three hours a present carried in by a servant, such as a ring, box of chocolates, flowers, a book. Instead of an orgy, however, the big night when it finally comes now consists in listening to the Poet-Prince talk with vivid force and imagery about politics, poetry, religion and LOVE until about 7 the next morning, when his guest staggers...
...cooler hours just after dawn. Every Egyptian town of importance had been equipped by the Government in recent weeks with a radio loudspeaker in the public square and the whole kingdom could listen for the first time to its sovereign. "I pledge myself to be the first servant of my country," broadcast Farouk I. "I thank everyone, the Egyptian people and also foreigners, for the loyalty they have shown to the fatherland and to myself...
...pacifism or praising the man who takes up arms for his country. To Europeans confused by relations between Church & State, the World Conference said firmly: "We do not consider the State as the ultimate source of law, but rather as its guarantor. It is not the lord, but the servant, of justice." The conference sent a message of sympathy to the German Evangelical Church, whose delegates had been denied passports to attend. This caused the only dissension of the fortnight at Oxford. A German Methodist and a Baptist, representing a mere 200,000 of Germany...
...time he crusaded for reformation of the immigration laws to put an end to a serious U. S. shortage of servant girls. Another time he helped prevent the adoption of Daylight Saving Time in the District of Columbia by pointing out that the "hungry lions and ravishing tigers" in the Washington zoo would set up "such a howl as you never heard" if their feeding-hours were changed. Minister Michael MacWhite of the Irish Free State still remembers arranging an audience with the Pope in Rome to which Sol went wearing several dozen rosaries so as to have them blessed...
...were never prefaced by, or attended with, those proverbs from, or references to, the Bible, which were so much the parts of speech of her sisters. . . . Therefore, for a very long time even the fact that my mother and father were acquainted with one another any more than a servant and mistress are acquainted was kept by them a secret...