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...some disgruntled tourist should soak his catalogue in kerosene, light it and set fire to a picture, fanning the conflagration on until the flame, leaping from masterpiece to masterpiece, kindled the whole collection and turned Burlington House first into an inferno and then into a pile of ashes, insurance companies would pay the owners of the pictures $3,000,000. The portrait of Lord Balfour, loaned by the Carlton Club, was alone insured...
...seven according to taste; and season with a reading knowledge of Chinese or Sanscrit and an elementary knowledge of the other Mix thoroughly. Stir in liberal portions of athletics and, if possible, a select clan, or two to give the right tone Add an occasional pinch of sensuality, and soak for four years in alcohol. If the resulting mixture has the right consistency, stamp with an official seal, wrap in parchment, and lay on a shelf. These ingredients will produce an education of approved brand. It will pass current at face value ever after and will admit the possessor...
Caesar and Cleopatra. The most heavily padded entrance of the season has been made. When the uproar of applause was past, the impression began to soak in that the tumult over the first play in the new Guild Theatre was a trifle premature...
...Undercurrent. Harry Beresford will be remembered in many cities as the incomparable "Old Soak." He will be remembered in Manhattan, very briefly no doubt, as the redeeming feature of a ragged entertainment called The Undercurrent. He plays the part of an irascible old mine owner who won't increase his miners' wages, refuses to let his daughter marry the man she loves. A little past the middle of the play, he is hit on the head in a taxi smash. He suddenly changes places? mentally?with the miners and the girl. Coming out of this strange cerebral revolution, his nature...
...coverlet and sent them to Flora Lee, with his compliments. She married him for his money and went systematically about softening him, as tainted honey rots the oak that chambers it. He lost his wealth, she deserted him, then both followed their blood until he was a river front soak, and she, one gusty night, crept back back to die in the old house on Innes street under the coverlet whose motto was: "The dog for faithfulness, the pheasant for luxury, the swan for lust...