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With grave simplicity and courtesy the Municipal Council of the little Polish town of Bydgoszcz gathered last week in their still, solemn council room. On a table was a check for $100,000 left "to the poor Jews of Bydgoszcz," by one Mrs. Leonard Cohen, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. With gravity the Council deliberated, then ordered that a polite note be penned to the executors of the will refusing the money, stating that "there are no poor Jews in Bydgoszcz...
...adoration; and the second, Alexandra, with a sudden silence, variously interpreted. Baroness Buxhoeveden, friend and lady-in-waiting to the last empress, says the crowds were struck dumb with holy awe. But Princess Radziwill, member of the St. Petersburg aristocracy Alexandra failed to please, calls the dumbness "a solemn, ominous silence . . . majestic absence of emotion on the part of the multitude...
...After this incident we separated for a time and made up with a solemn pledge never to play together again. We were happy together until Aug. 19. We were at the home of friends and they brought out the bridge table. Mr. Wood doubled a one no trump bid and I, disgusted with a bust hand, forgot to take him out of it. Again he hit me and we have been separated ever since...
...Culme-Seymour. And, years afterwards, in 1910, it was libelously published that he had morga-natically married her, prior to the death of the Duke of Clarence. In 1911 the King, with great courage, and against the.advice of his councillors, downed this libel, once and for all, with a solemn public affirmation that he had never been married to anyone except Queen Mary...
...little room in an upholsterer's house was draped in black, lit with candles. A hundred years ago it was Schubert's death chamber. Last week it was empty save for an altar and a marble bust. Yet there, for tribute, gathered highest dignitaries to hear the solemn mass pronounced by His Eminence Gustave Frederic Cardinal Piffl, Archbishop of Vienna. Outside the little house the street was roped off, guarded by police. Only honored guests were admitted-and 500 school children who sang Schubert songs...