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Odds. Bets placed last week in Wall Street against the Hoover nomination, 9 to 5; against the Dawes or Lowden, 10 to 4; against the Curtis, 10 to 1; against the Smith...
Ambassador Sthamer quietly documented his protest, last week, by producing the official German account of the execution: ". . . Soldiers brought Fraulein Cavell from a neighboring house. Her eyes were bandaged and a black veil was placed over her head. While being led to the wall she tottered and fell in a faint, whereupon an officer, kneeling to aim, shot her. . . . She never faced the firing squad...
There were some paintings hung on the walls of a tiny room in the Anderson Galleries; other paintings, smaller ones, rested on cabinets or stood along the floor. The room was full of people, talking to each other in awed, foolish whispers. In the corner of the room sat a lady dressed in a black cloth coat, smiling like a severe Mona Lisa. She was Georgia O'Keeffe; the paintings on the wall belonged to her because she had made them; for some reason, the room seemed hers as well...
Arthur Brisbane, Hearstling paragrapher, applauded the State Department as follows: "Too bad Wall Street's boy financiers did not have somebody like Secretary Kellogg to keep them from buying the Tsar's bonds, and even more preposterous bonds issued by Kerensky. Largely on account of those bonds this country is not permitted to do business with Russia...
...themselves with quail and chilled champagne, call for their broughams, and drive through the streets, quite quiet except for the soft drumming of horses' hoofs, to the auction room. The men would smoke long cigars during the sale and bid furiously because it was good fun and a Wall Street habit...