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...always cantankerous, Notterdam and Kratch came to grips, almost to blows, over the House's policy. When the dust settled Kratch had left sulphurously for Europe, Notterdam had determined to buy out his partner, never see him again. Then things began to happen to Notterdam. . . . When not quite sober he had been persuaded to sign a long-term contract with an obscure author. He repudiated the contract. The author, who was starving, killed himself. Notterdam had a peck of trouble hushing up the story, was first helped, then hindered by the author's disreputable wife. Notterdam...
First move was to make another of those sober, resigned, high minded statements which are so useful in re-establishing the prestige of deposed monarchs. This one was given to the world by Marques de Luca de Tena, editor of the Royalist Madrid daily, A. B. C. Said King Alfonso to Marques de Tena...
...metropolitan desert. Like Manhattan's Gramercy Park, the Square has a sacred enclosure to which only residents have a key, and within the pale stands the statue of some respectable and forgotten person. Children play there while their nurses gossip; from most of the Square's houses sober citizens go daily forth to do the work of City or Empire. Chronicler Mackail, more classic than Dickens, never leaving the limits of Tiverton Square, lets you watch its life for just a year. Long before you turn the 48th page you feel on closer terms with the inhabitants than...
...that Madrid thought Alfonso was signing his abdication, the round Plaza del Oriente in front of the Royal Palace in Madrid was kept clear by police and mounted Civil Guards. Inside, pale, sober Alfonso XIII scratched busily at his manifesto with a gold pen. With a scrawl of his signature he rose, handed the paper to Count de Romanones, "richest man in Spain," until that morning Royalist Minister of State. Said Alfonso to the Count...
...Rothenstein autobiography contains many a Rothenstein portrait, innumerable anecdotes of his famed friends. Immaculate James McNeill Whistler always called him "Parson." Rothenstein's frantic efforts to keep Verlaine sober at Oxford are fully described. Walter Pater was grievously hurt at Parson Will's drawing of him, asked his friends privately "Do I look like a Barbary...