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Kindhearted Britons at once began, sending him bagfuls of coal, jugs of home-made wine, baskets of greens and even unused postage stamps with which to keep His Majesty's correspondence going. "I am a poor man, yes!" Haile Selassie told Miss Steedman to tell the world, "but I am not an object of charity. Such undignified gifts as these should be sent to the Abyssinia Association for the relief of refugees...
Meanwhile Mme Chiang, in her daily column to the U. S. press, radioed from Nanking: "Tokyo's acclamation of Matsui as a hero on Chinese soil has gone to his head . . . strongest wine of militaristic adulation . . . Japanese war lords drunk with their hollow success at Shanghai . . . power lust...
...read and enjoyed Gone With the Wind and Jurgen and who can take all of Victor Herbert and only some of Brahms and Tchaikovsky. We are the kind of Americans who are not going to feign seeing something that we don't see. . . . How come Braque's wine bottle with ears, containing light colored fluid on one side of the bottle, dark on the other? Why the screwy perspective? Go ahead TIME, get hot, get arty as Hell, educate us ordinary birds who have our hair cut every two weeks. There are ever so many...
...performers, except the Pope, the Pontifical Court and the College of Cardinals are never the same. [Yet] they must appear spontaneously perfect, as if each single participant had known his part for a lifetime and acted from inherent impulse. . . . One interesting particular is that gifts of candles, bread, wine, water, turtle doves and birds in elaborate cages are offered to the Pope...
...moment dallying innocently with Sir John's young affections. There was also the startling Lady Mors, whose husband thought he was a firecracker and so lived in constant fear of going off. It was Lady Mors who had indirectly wrecked Joseph's chances as a wine merchant and so, by switching him to gardening, had brought him still more indirectly to the most momentous' day of his career: the opening of the annual show of the Royal Horticultural Society...