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...cutaway and high hat for the first time during the trip. Costa Ricans are ceremonious. Then, there was a 70-mile rail trip, climbing most of the way through tropical mountains, to San Jose, the capital. President Cleto Gonzalez Viquez, a bold gentleman with a scholar's brow, delivered perhaps the most sense-making speech of welcome thus far. He warmly and respectfully welcomed "the illustrious statesman and distinguished organizer," referred to the U.S. as a "colossus," acknowledged Costa Rica's debt to the late Chief Justice White of the U.S.* and, without flourishes, said: "There is nothing...
...smile was mischievous but reliable. She lived 148 years ago, but she is still remembered. Reason: Sir Joshua Reynolds painted her portrait. At the time she was 20. She was the daughter of the 7th Earl of Northampton. Her combined hair & wigs piled up enormously above her white brow, bright eyes, little pointed chin. She concealed her slenderness in an embonpoint of drapery, revealed the toes of her slippers. Sir Joshua painted her against an expanse of foliage. Her parents paid him about $1,050. It meant nothing to debutante Betty. When she went home she called Sir Joshua...
...instant the brow of the Prime Minister was stern, beetled, then he seemed to remember a very good jest, beamed, chuckled, "No, no, M. Bergery. You asked me to be your second-your best man-at your first marriage. I refused you then. I still refuse...
...question, and not looking up): "What d'you th-" (Then, stammering, as he sees by whom he is addressed) :"I . . . . I mean . . . . I am laying a kerbstone." Exalted Personage (preparing to canter urbanely away): "A kerbstone? Ah, a useful improvement." Laborer Rowlands (wiping cold sweat from his brow, as the hoofbeats recede): "Lor! 'Is Majesty...
...fact that Professor Murdock is giving a lecture on "The American Short Story since 1870" this morning at 10 o'clock in Harvard 1, at which the Vagabond expects to be present. For even if Poe is his favorite, he likes to wipe the cold sweat off his brow every now and then and enjoy the tales of O. Henry, Richard Harding Davis, and many others whom Professor Murdock will probably cover...