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...already standing there, and Emilio, his huge chauffeur, is playing with the diminutive fox terrier. . . . The Maestro raises his stick . . . sings with the music . . . 'Molto, molto, piu molto sforzato.' He wishes a strong, dramatic accent . . . a little cantilena [singing]. . . . Then, a small error in the oboes. . . . 'Ah, no no no, no no no, no no no no.' He goes back disconcerted. 'Bitte vierr tak-te vohhrr [in Italianate German: Please, four measures back]. . . . It is an esthetic pleasure merely to watch...
...ah!" groaned hunger-striking Mme Bosilka Pribitchevitch. But Adam Pribitchevitch, Valerian Pribitchevitch and Col. Milan Pribitchevitch starved stoically. They were grimly, emptily resolved that King Alexander should not banish to the remote, unsanitary village of Brus their brother, that great Croatian statesman Svetozar Pribitchevitch "One of the Founders of Jugoslavia" (TIME, June...
...that a ship was decorated by artists of the British Royal Academy is to stamp her with a definite cachet. From George V and Queen Mary down. British aristocracy gathers every spring on "Varnishing Day" (which opens the London Season) to "oh" and "ah" at what members of the British Royal Academy have done since last spring. Astutely Canadian Pacific turned to Sir John Lavery, R. A. for the "Empress Ballroom" of the Empress of Britain...
Such are the inducements to mirth: at a dinner party an unskillfully inebriated gentleman spys some hors d'oevres in the form of anchovies and exclaims expectantly, "Ah, oysters. My favorite fruit." On an equally high level was another very popular remark; the wife, in reply to the husband's complaint that her uncle owes him fifteen dollars remarks that the debt has probably slipped the avuncular mind. To which her spouse nearly rejoins. "If probably has. And how" so much for the play's good points...
...Ah well, he will lay these sad thoughts by, together with his briar, and go today to hear those professors who have, like Faustus, but one short hour to live. And he will go secure in the thought that next year there will be new battalions to replace those who have gone, battalions to whom the word "vagabond" still conjures up visions of a careless wastrel. If youth but knew, and age but could...