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...Lefebyre and Benjamin Constant, acquired a precise and elegant technique, and developed, by painting the cold noses of aristocrats and the torsos of the wives of trade-kings, a satiric turn of mind that would have made him an ornament to the House in the days of Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield. Two years ago he painted a picture of King George. The monarch's little legs protruded from a dandiacal bouquet of ribbons and stars, ermine and furbelows; his wan, overbred features looked down like a face of wax in a show window. Critics labeled the picture "The Mayfly Monarch...
Thus were the two leaders when the greatest of all Parliaments was at its greatest. His body breaking up, Disraeli in this year of 1876 left the Commons for the milder House of Lords, becoming the Earl of Beaconsfield. But he still retained the leadership of his party and was prime minister (1874-80)?his one spell of real unchallenged power. He had begun this reign by getting the Suez Canal?with Rothschild's help. "Madame, you have it," he scribbled to the Queen...
Canada. On the 18th green of the Beaconsfield course at Montreal, Que., a golf ball nestled close to the hole. Since sailing off the first tee it had been smitten only 68 times. Up walked A. H. Murray, professional at the Montreal Country Club, proprietor of the ball. He seized his putter, twitched his wrist, the ball rolled askew, missed the cup. Undismayed, Murray whisked it in on his 70th stroke. He had won the Canadian Professional Championship (open to Canadians only) by a two-stroke margin. Nicol Thompson, of Hamilton, "ran up" with 146 strokes...
...result of the Freshman Glee Club concerts, the last of which occurred Wednesday evening at Beaconsfield Terrace, the club turns over to the crew almost...
...dishonest as well as ill-bred. Does the defender of Anglomania think social dishonesty "betters" Americans. I am generous enough to believe he does not. When we see Anglomaniacs imitating the splendid intellectual life of Gladstone, the magnificent commonsense of Bright, the brilliant shrewdness of Beaconsfield, the CRIMSON, I take it, will not rebuke the tendency. For obvious reasons, however, it will be too much to expect from Anglomaniacs...