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...attempt to comprehend, or, if understood, too abstract a principle to rally great throngs of men and women. Essentially a Eucharistic Congress is a simple act of public corporate faith, centring in the great mystery of the real presence of Jesus Christ under the appearance of bread and wine. It also represents Catholicism openly on parade. To Catholics the spiritual benefits of Eucharistic Congresses have become obvious in the 32 international ones which have been held since 1881. Years ago the annual council of U. S. Catholic bishops voted to hold Congresses regularly every four years, chose Cleveland...
...patent medicine had cured his arthritis: "I went into a London hospital where they pulled out all my teeth and did a lot of other things to me. Nothing seemed to do much good, though. One day my manservant brought me a sinister-looking bottle-it looked like a wine bottle-and on it was written 'Kleano'. I was ready to try anything. I took it and I owe my return to that medicine. . . . It changed my whole life. . . . I gave them a testimonial for it just before I left London...
...years ago he bought a Belgian middleweight prizefighter named Rene DeVos, introduced him to U. S. pugilism at a smart hotel party. Plug-ugly guests disappeared with quantities of silverware and fine wine, did their best to make off with a piano. In 1929 he and some associates plopped a swank Casino in the middle of Manhattan's Central Park. Accommodated with a modest rental by Mayor "Jimmy" Walker, the Casino has been under fire almost ever since for its undemocratic prices, its oversized profits...
...casting foundry. As many as 100 men are sometimes employed. In old clothes and square paper caps, the five brothers hammer and laugh, shout and sing arias from opera. At noon Attilio or a "Tuscan gentlewoman" named Clementina cooks the roast, spaghetti or chicken, uncorks the Vesuvian wine and the five & guests sit down for a noisy, two-hour meal. Horatio usually washes the dishes afterward. All talk well, laugh easily. Frequent guests at these Renaissance meals are New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia who calls Attilio "Uncle Peach" and John D. Rockefeller Jr. whom "Uncle Peach" calls...
...Paris thrifty Miss Warner returned with her sister-manager to await the verdict in their room at the cheap Hotel Burgundy where they never smoke, never order wine. Thin and, without makeup, childish in appearance, the 22-year-old Slave Dancer shrewdly concocts from cosmetics bought in bulk the thick paint which turns her into a beautiful, large-eyed blonde of uncertain age. Strangely lacking in sex appeal off the stage, Miss Warner is a wet blanket at parties, has been known plaintively to ask fellow guests who were making whoopee to sit down and let her read them...