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...that a ship was decorated by artists of the British Royal Academy is to stamp her with a definite cachet. From George V and Queen Mary down. British aristocracy gathers every spring on "Varnishing Day" (which opens the London Season) to "oh" and "ah" at what members of the British Royal Academy have done since last spring. Astutely Canadian Pacific turned to Sir John Lavery, R. A. for the "Empress Ballroom" of the Empress of Britain...
...nominated, I. H. C., Ltd. could understand Director Owen's willingness, which he presently disclosed, to accept ?30,000 for the conduct of "experiments" at his Institute preliminary to the four-year plan. Impressive letters on stationery headed Treasury and Imperial Conference gave Swindler Owen the cachet not only of honor but of friendship with the great. Soon Dr. Owen got Oxford to give him an honorary M. A. He pretended that he already had the rank of Doctor (of Engineering), a rank highly esteemed in Europe.* He went about Oxford arm-in-arm with England's intellectually...
...sombre melodrama about a young woman who leaves a Russian general to become the mistress of a lieutenant and who goes back to the general again to save her lover, a cheat at cards, from public disgrace. It is familiar material, unreal and overacted, but stamped with the European cachet of original direction and distinguished by the blonde beauty of Brigitte Helm. Best shot: the introductory sequence, repeated again at the end, in which the spectator follows the camera's eye through a villa apparently empty, through a room and a hallway, and at last to a balcony on which...
...Smith, son of a New York farmer, claimed that he had talked with a radiant nocturnal visitor who caused him to be led, by divine guidance, to a lonely hill near the village of Manchester, N. Y., where he discovered numerous engraved and lettered plates of gold in a cachet of stone. Annually for four years he returned to look at the plates; then they were delivered to him by his spectral visitor. In 1830 there was first published The Book of Mormon, purporting to be a translation of the plates accomplished with divinely acquired erudition by humble Joseph Smith...
...younger liver was, the greater might be its power of stimulating blood formation. His persuasiveness induced the Government's meat inspectors to release him sufficient fetal livers for his purpose. The remedy apparently has proved successful. Dr. Gordon's success gained the Department of Agriculture's cachet last week. Rice Price Steddom. chief of the Federal Meat Inspection Service, offered to release to reputable physicians, medical institutions and pharmaceutical manufacturers all possible fetal livers which reach slaughter. But the rest of the unborn carcasses may not be marketed...