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...after getting an honorary degree, His Majesty donated $10,000 to a university students' union; at Aligarh he gave $600 to his car drivers. During a few days in New Delhi, his party spent $100,000 in gift shops for gold-threaded cloth, sandalwood and ivory bric-a-brac for the wives back home...
...bared her fangs to cry: "I will not be served! I have the voice of an angel! No man can serve me!" Then she lunged into her dressing room. Long after the platoon of servers had gone, Maria's shrieks were counterpointed by the sound of bric-a-brac smashing against the walls. Next morning Soprano Callas, leaving her summonses behind her, hopped off to Milan. Arriving in sunny Italy, she was still in high-soprano dudgeon. "Those Zulus maltreated me," she caterwauled. "But I don't care a dime what those people...
...other butlers, two housekeepers, five housemen and eight maids, must keep track of 2,200 pieces of table linen, 2,427 of glassware, 10,114 of chinaware, 6,201 of silverware, 2,630 of furniture, to say nothing of lamps, rugs, draperies, portraits, blankets and assorted bric-a-brac...
ANTONI CLAVÉ, 41, a Spaniard who is currently France's leading ballet stage designer. Clavé's handsome studies in rich greens, blacks and deep violets of dolls, stage props, studio bric-a-brac are largely decorative, inspired by hints thrown out earlier by Bonnard and Picasso...
Undergraduate Van Dusen captained the Debating Team, headed the Undergraduate Council, the Bric-a-Brac and the International Polity Club, was valedictorian, Ivy Orator, Phi Beta Kappa, and an active member of the Student Christian Association. But for all sober purpose about him, Pit Van Dusen, when he graduated in 1919, still did not know what he wanted to do. The law, of course, beckoned, "but something made me hold back from it." He toyed with the idea of being a social worker, "although it was, and is, primarily a woman's field." His approach to the ministry...