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...House of Lords. In 1905, he returned to the House of Lords as a Conservative and just as much at his ease as he had been in the bosom of the Liberal Party. He became a stern enemy of Lloyd George's radical budgets and, in 1909, advised the House of Lords to reject the year's Finance Bill and "damn the consequences." The House did. Two ensuing general elections brought their lordships face to face with the problem of whether they should pass a bill to abolish their financial veto or should reject it and cause King...
...character of Fricka seemed to become momently less goddesslike. Strutting in a manner little indicated by her role, she approached the wings, hissed a plea for silence. The voice went on. Fricka then took from her bosom a word that Austria has defended with the lives of 10,000 duelists, hurled this after her plea. The voice went on. It was a moment for desperate shifts. Queen Fricka, somewhat forgetful of the proprieties, spat a jet of saliva which, soaring through the group around the noisy raconteuse, settled on the shoulder of a Valkyr...
...waters of Havana Harbor were settling uncertainly over what was left of the battleship Maine and thousands of young bankers, brokers, litterateurs and demagogs abandoned their occupations to become chambermaids to mules, Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, soprano, made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan. Her bosom did not tremble nor her knees quiver as she thrilled the assemblage with the resonance, flexibility and persuasion of her voice, for she was, even then, no neophyte. She had done her Azucena in Trovatore 20 years earlier in Dresden, her Erda in London, Bayreuth and Berlin. Manhattan welcomed her. After...
...wads of anecdote apotheosizing his commendable arrogance, his cosmopolitanism, his indifference to money; he scanned columns of doting verbiage in which criticasters acclaimed him as "The Modern Velasquez," "The Modern Van Dyck," mourned him as a mortal but set him among the gods, his head on Abraham's bosom, his feet in Titian's lap. He smiled...
...Pacific. It carries 17 Presidents on its bosom. (Page 3, column...