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Birds in Their Little Nests. After the last of many temperamental disagreements with Sullivan, Gilbert retired to the country, where he became a somewhat eccentric justice of the peace. "Had you been a gentleman," he said to a chauffeur whom he had just fined ?5 for reckless driving, "I should have fined you ten." Gilbert himself bought an American Locomobile-in which he promptly ran over a bicycling curate and sent his own wife flying into a hedge. "She looked like a large and quite unaccountable bird's nest," he mused...
...City's swank Union Club. Some 133 guests, including the entire diplomatic corps, the entire Panamanian Cabinet, the presidents of the National Assembly and Supreme Court, waited more than an hour before deciding that the U.N. Secretary-General had stood them up. Lie, reportedly annoyed when his official chauffeur got lost or mislaid, proceeded to Cuba. Panamanians were most piqued because they had ransacked the neighborhood for a Norwegian flag for the occasion...
Somerset Maugham - accompanied by his secretary, cook, housekeeper, butler and chauffeur-returned after long absence to his villa at Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera, found the second story pretty much a war ruin. He set himself a double deadline for April, hoped by then to have the place repaired and a book finished. A caller found him huddled by the fireplace, repairing a cold with hot grog. The book, said Maugham, would be "the last book of my life ... a romance . . ." and he meant not to dally. "I feel that when a man reaches my age [73 next month...
...word went out over the radio to the nation's coal miners, who had lost $61.000,000 in wages while standing beside Lewis in the fight. In mid-afternoon of a mild Dec. 7, John Lewis emerged from U.M.W. headquarters and climbed laboriously into his chauffeur-driven Cadillac limousine. Labor leaders rubbed their eyes and stared in the direction of the bridgehead. Horatius had fled...
...outland editions (the Register publishes twelve of them) were more broadminded. In St. Louis, a daughter of the late beer baron August A. Busch stayed in even though she had married her gardener last May, had been divorced by him in July, had married her ex-chauffeur in August...