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Last Christmas both were reading Gulliver's Travels. One day Father Mauch, who was paying them a visit, fell asleep on a sofa. They found two spools of thread, wound it around him so that when he woke up he found himself in the same predicament as Gulliver in Lilliput. Mrs. Mauch extricated her husband with a pair of scissors...
Married. James Cameron Clark, famed Newark foxhunter, son of the late J. William Clark (O.N.T. thread); and Mrs. Marion Taylor Gibson, divorced daughter-in-law of Artist Charles Dana Gibson; at Goldens Bridge, N. Y., day after he was awarded a divorce in Reno from Lady Irene Helen Cubitt Clark...
...Harnasie are wild mountaineers in the Carpathians. Szymanowski lived with them for long periods, decided to write a ballet-pantomime full of their folk dances, a wedding, a drinking song. All these he strung together on a slender thread of plot about a mountain chief who abducts a girl. In Carnegie Hall the work was not pantomime, but the rich singing of the Art of Musical Russia chorus made it splendidly dramatic...
Boiling mad at this Japanese-British sharp practice, M.P.'s demanded that His Majesty's Government bring in a bill to deprive of Imperial preference any cloth which is not British-woven-from-British- made-thread-and-British-finished...
...time he wrote a column, Trifles & Baubles. His one & only novel, The Tragic Hunt, appeared in 33 installments, was so complicated that most readers lost the thread of the plot. He signed his stuff by many a pseudonym, usually "Antosha Chekhonte." By the time he had taken his medical degree he had become a professional journalist. Said he: "Literature is my mistress and medicine my lawful wife." As a doctor, he knew he was threatened with tuberculosis but would never admit it, refused to be examined. Potent Alexey Suvorin, editor of St. Petersburg's Novoe Vremya, biggest Russian daily...