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Suddenly a window on the second floor of the Palais flew up, and the chief foreign ministers of Europe announced that they had just initialed the Rhine pact and a sheaf of arbitration treaties! While candles all but showered the distinguished statesmen with sparks, Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister of France, and Hans Luther, Chancellor of Germany, beamed out upon the multitude, with the consciousness that seven years after the World War their countries had at last joined as equals in an accord for peace...
Looking over their shoulders, Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Minister of Britain, waved triumphantly to the cheering crowd. And Premier Mussolini, who had signed for Italy to indicate that she would join England in guaranteeing the peace of the Rhineland, appeared at the window for a moment...
...comfortable "Woman in Front of a Fireplace"; a curiously enervated drawing by Matisse; work by Menard, Besnard Danchez, Le Sidaner, Blanche; a full length painting by witty Guy Pene Du Bois of a nude woman seen from behind while she peeps through a slit in her curtain window at something in the next room...
...wooden bowl, or scare his wits out of himself by a ride on a roller coaster?all by paying a modest admission fee of 50c. Strangely enough over the great amusement hall is built an apartment where the owners of the entertainment dwell, and where they have a little window where they can gaze down upon the antics of the crowd below...
...plumbing trade, that much he knew. Was such cock-loftiness even American? Did it not endanger the very principles of equality upon which the nation was founded? For a long time he brooded on this question, went down into his cellar, wrote a sign, affixed it to his front window. "To Let," he stated, adding, in huge black letters: "NEGROES ONLY...