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Immigration officials questioned the Countess for twelve minutes, bade her land...
...Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt resigned, having been nominated for Governor of New York; and the President bade him Godspeed in the footsteps of his father...
Alvaric came to Witch Ziroonderel, his father's friend. Out of 17 thunderbolts which he dug up at her bidding from the soft earth under her cabbages, she fashioned him a sword and enchanted it with runes and bade him be off. So Alvaric set his face toward the Elfin Mountains, whose changeless peaks were the color of forget-me-nots, and in due time passed the frontier of twilight that bordered the fields men knew and was the rampart of Elfland...
...affairs of state, or unconsciously as a sign of the times, the Carleton Club of London, which in the popular mind is the symbol of all that is most sacred to the British aristocracy, threw open its doors last week to some fifty odd sons of toil and bade them welcome to its Saturday luncheon. For one short hour, at least, the muezzin did not chant his "procul, o procul este, profani," from the holy doorway; and as a consequence marquises and masons hobnobbed in a state of democratic conviviality...
...Kvale, Representative to the 68th Congress, closed his 29th year of service in the ministry by preaching a farewell sermon in the Norwegian Lutheran Church of Benson, Minn. Mr. Kvale bade farewell to the ministry so that he might take up his duties as a Congressman, succeeding Andrew J. Volstead, whom he defeated in election last Fall...